A minibus swept Bin Laden's family away from their Islamabad villaThe widows and children of Osama Bin Laden have left their villa in Islamabad, as they reportedly begin a journey to Saudi Arabia.
The three widows, who are believed to have 11 children, left the house in a minibus amid tight security.
Officials said they were being deported to Saudi Arabia. One said it was their country of choice.
The al-Qaeda leader was killed by US special forces a year ago in the north-west Pakistani city of Abbottabad.
According to the BBC's Tulip Mazumdar, at the house in Islamabad, police covered the minibus with a sheet as the Bin Laden family boarded.
The family were detained immediately after the pre-dawn raid in which Bin Laden was killed on 2 May 2011.
His wives and two eldest children were eventually charged with staying in Pakistan illegally, and last week completed a 45-day term of imprisonment at the villa.
The widows were held at the house in the capital which was designated as a "sub-jail", and all the rest of their children stayed with them.
They were also sentenced to deportation.
The two oldest wives are Saudi Arabian but the youngest is Yemeni. It is unclear whether she will remain in Saudi Arabia.
Pakistan will be hoping this marks the end of the Bin Laden chapter, our correspondent says, as his family who lived here for years leave the country. (Source: bbc.co.uk)
