The Associated Press Oct 4, 2001 : 7:40 am ET

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistan believes there is sufficient evidence against Osama bin Laden to indict him for Sept. 11 attacks on the United States, the foreign ministry spokesman said Thursday.

"There is sufficient grounds for indictment in terms of the material we have seen and we have studied," Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammed Riaz Khan told reporters.

It was the strongest statement yet from a Muslim country supporting the American view that bin Laden played a major role in the worst terrorist attack in American history.

U.S. Ambassador Wendy Chamberlin met Tuesday with Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, to brief him on the investigation into the attack and lay out America's case against bin Laden.

"This material certainly provides a sufficient basis for an indictment in a court of law," Khan said.

He refused to comment whether the evidence was sufficient to justify a military strike on Afghanistan and bin Laden's terrorist network there.

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