ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Afghanistan's Taliban leaders have asked for a special meeting of the Organization of the Islamic Conference to discuss the terrorist attacks in the United States and "help in getting the culprits," a Taliban official said Friday.

Pakistani officials said the meeting would probably be held Oct. 9 in Doha, Qatar. Foreign Office spokesman Riaz Mohammed Khan said Pakistan planned to attend.

Officials from the Saudi Arabia-based OIC, which groups 57 Muslim nations, could not immediately be reached for comment on Friday, a weekend day in the Islamic world.

"We have urged both the OIC and the United Nations to investigate the matter and help in getting the culprits," Sohail Shaheen, a spokesman of the Taliban embassy in Islamabad, told The Associated Press.

The United States says Osama bin Laden is the top suspect in the Sept. 11 attacks against New York and the Pentagon. Washington has demanded the Taliban hand over bin Laden, who has been living in Afghanistan since 1996.

Shaheen said the Taliban want the perpetrators to be punished but also want to see solid evidence linking bin Laden, who has denied the allegation, to the attacks.

Shaheen also complained that American spy planes have been violating Afghan airspace since the crisis began.