Islamabad, Pakistan ? A top Pakistani provincial police official said Friday that a U.S.-led raid in southwestern Afghanistan killed seven al-Qaida men and wounded eight others — including two sons of Osama bin Laden. U.S. officials disputed the report.

Sanaullah Zehri, home minister of Baluchistan province and the region’s top security official, said the allied raid occurred near Rabat, an area where the borders of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan converge.

He said on Pakistani television and told The Associated Press that bin Laden’s sons Saad and Hamza were captured and were in the hospital in Rabat being treated for wounds.

After reports of the raid were challenged by U.S., Afghan and Pakistani officials, Zehri told AP, “I am getting my information from my sources and this is what I have heard.” Zehri, who spoke by telephone from Quetta, the Baluchistan provincial capital, said no Pakistani forces were involved.

White House spokesman Ari Fleischer played down the claims, saying: “We have no information to substantiate that report.”

Col. Roger King, a U.S. military spokesman at Bagram Air Base, said he could not confirm reports about bin Laden’s sons and denied U.S. and other coalition forces were involved in any operation in Rabat.

“As far as I know there is no involvement of any forces belonging to CJTF-180,” King told AP. “As far as I know we don’t have anybody operating in that vicinity.” CJTF-180 is the military acronym for coalition joint forces in Afghanistan.

In Washington, U.S. officials strongly disputed the reports. They said they had no information to suggest the sons had been detained.

Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry spokesman, Mohammed Daoud, said he was unaware of a Rabat operation. “We have no information on this,” he said in the Afghan capital, Kabul.

However, Nafaas Khan, deputy inspector of police in Afghanistan’s Nimroz province where Rabat is located, said he had no information about bin Laden’s sons.