Pakistan says no information on Zawahiri report

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ISLAMABAD (AFP) — Pakistan's military said on Saturday it had no information on a US media report that Al-Qaeda's deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri may have been wounded or killed in a missile strike.

US television channel CBS said it had obtained an intercepted letter from a Pakistani Taliban commander urgently requesting a doctor to treat Zawahiri following the attack in a tribal area bordering Afghanistan last week.

"There is no evidence or information in this regard. We have no reliable information," chief Pakistani military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas told AFP.

Pakistani officials have previously said that a July 28 missile strike in the South Waziristan tribal area killed Al-Qaeda's top chemical and biological weapons expert, Midhat Mursi...