Bin Laden in a statement from Afghanistan town Jalalabad declared "our biggest enemies are the US and India and we should target them using the best of our efforts". All the jehad groups in Pakistan should combine their efforts to declare war against these two countries, he said.

Bin Laden had earlier declared jehad against the US after Washington listed him among the ten `most wanted terrorists in the world' with a prize of $ 5 million on him for his alleged involvement in the US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania in August last year.

The statement alleged that India is staging a "drama of election" in Kashmir and added that "bin Laden is always ready to help the Kashmiri mujahideens".