ISLAMABAD, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- Pakistani Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz Khan on Friday said the government had no information to confirm reports that a top al-Qaida operative had been killed in Pakistan, the official Associated Press of Pakistan reported.

    Talking to reporters at the National Database Registration Authority headquarters here, Hamid Nawaz said the place where the explosion occurred in Mir Ali had already been cleared by militants when security personnel reached there.

    "We cannot confirm al-Libi's death because the militants had removed bodies from the site where the explosion happened and the security personnel did not find any corpse," he said.

    Media reports said that Abu Laith Al Libi, a senior al-Qaida commander had been killed in a missile attack in Mir Ali of North Waziristan bordering Afghanistan late Monday.

    Libi was named in al-Qaida videos as a senior field commander in Afghanistan, who was suspected of involvement in a suicide bombing attack that killed 23 people outside Bagram air base in Afghanistan during a visit by Vice President of the U.S. Cheney in February 2007.

Al-Qaida top commander killed in Pakistan

    ISLAMABAD, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- A leading Al-Qaeda commander has been killed in a missile attack in Pakistan, Pakistani TV channel Geo reported on Friday.

    Named Abu Laith al-Libi, the Al-Qaeda commander has been confirmed dead by an Al-Qaeda-affiliated forum on the Internet, said the report.  Full story