By Xinhua,
Islamabad : A Pakistani military spokesman said Saturday that there was no evidence or information on death or wounding of al-Qaeda No. 2 leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Local private Dawn News TV channel quoted the spokesman, Athar Abbas, as saying that the evidence is not available on the al-Qaeda’s death or injury in a suspected U.S. strike.
A U.S. media reported al-Zawahiri has been critically injured, and might be possibly dead, in a suspected U.S. missile strike in northwestern Pakistan on Monday.
The suspected U.S. missile strike hit a madrasa near Pakistan’s South Waziristan tribal agency on the Afghan border, killing six people, possibly including a top al-Qaeda bomb-making expert.
Reports said the U.S. authorities have said that there were no information that al-Zawahiri was present during Monday’s strike, or that he was injured.