A pant type absorbent article such as a pant diaper, a sanitary pant or incontinence pant, said article having a core region comprising an absorbent core and a chassis surrounding the core region, said chassis comprising front, back and waist regions (5, 6 and 7), while the core region is located at least in a crotch portion of the article, a liquid impermeable backsheet is arranged at least in the core region on the garment-facing side of the absorbent core and a liquid permeable topsheet is arranged at least in the core region on the wearer-facing side of the absorbent core, said article having a longitudinal (y) and a transverse direction (x), said article in at least a part of the chassis region comprising a coversheet in the form of an elastic laminate composed of at least two web shaped material layers in the form of nonwoven and/or film layers, at least one of said web shaped materials being an elastic material, said elastic laminate constituting the sole component of the chassis in at least 20% of the total surface area of the article, characterized in that said elastic laminate having: a) a tensile strength of at least 15 N/25 mm both in the longitudinal (y) and the transverse (x) direction of the article; b) a tensile strength in transverse direction (x) of the article which is no more than 2.5 times and preferably no more than 2 times higher than the tensile strength in the longitudinal direction (y) of the article; and c) wherein the force required to extend the elastic laminate 10% in the longitudinal direction (y) of the article is no more than 5N/25mm as measured by the Tensile Strength test method disclosed herein, and further in that said elastic laminate material is non-elastic and extendible in the longitudinal direction (y) of the article and has a permanent deformation of more than 10% after having been stretched to a stretched width which is 30% greater than the original unstretched width according to the Elasticity Test described herein, wherein the elastic laminate is composed of first and second layers of fibrous material (11, 12) and an elastic film layer located between said first and second fibrous layers and, wherein the first layer of fibrous material and the elastic film layer form parts of a first elastic laminate that has been rendered elastic by incremental stretching and partial tearing of the first layer of fibrous material and in that said first elastic laminate has been bonded to the second layer of fibrous material while in a stretched state, whereby the laminate is elastically stretchable, or wherein the first layer and second layers of fibrous material (11, 12) have been bonded to the elastic film layer while this is in a stretched state, whereby the laminate is elastically stretchable. a) a tensile strength of at least 15 N/25 mm both in the longitudinal (y) and the transverse (x) direction of the article; b) a tensile strength in transverse direction (x) of the article which is no more than 2.5 times and preferably no more than 2 times higher than the tensile strength in the longitudinal direction (y) of the article; and c) wherein the force required to extend the elastic laminate 10% in the longitudinal direction (y) of the article is no more than 5N/25mm as measured by the Tensile Strength test method disclosed herein,