By Xinhua,
Islamabad : A Pakistani Taliban spokesman on Saturday denied a media report on death or wounding of al-Qaeda No.2 leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a U.S. missile strike.
Maulvi Umar, spokesman for Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (Pakistan Taliban Movement), made the remarks in an interview with private Express TV channel.
Pakistan’s military spokesman Athar Abbas said earlier that there was no evidence or information on al-Zawahiri’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 was no information that al-Zawahiri was present during Monday’s strike, or that he was injured.