Pakistani security department has arrested the contractor of the compound where the world's most wanted terrorist leader Osama bin Laden had hidden inside for years, reported local English TV channel Express on Wednesday.

But the report failed to mention when and where the contractor was arrested. It did not provide detailed information about the identity of the contractor.

Residents in Abbottabad where Osama bin Laden's compound is located told Xinhua that the compound was bought by a man they knew as Arshad Khan who is believed to be a resident of Charsadda in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, a militancy rampant area in northwest Pakistan.

The Nation, an English daily newspaper, reported on Tuesday that the identity card bearing the name of the house owner as Arshad s/o Naqeeb who is said to be a resident of the Tangi Fas area of Charsadda.

But the report quoted local NADRA office as saying that the identity card of the house owner is a fake one and the residents of the Tangi Fas area also said that no man with such name is residing in the area.

A?U.S. special task force launched a helicopter raid Sunday on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, a small mountainous city located some 100 kilometers north of Pakistan's capital Islamabad. During the raid, Osama bin Laden, together with four other people including his adult son, one woman and two other followers, were shot dead on the spot.