Dubai-based Al Arabiya television today quoted a Taliban official as saying al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was alive.
Last week, a leaked French secret document said Saudi intelligence believed Bin Laden died last month in Pakistan, but the United States and other countries cast doubt on the report.
Saudi Arabia said on Sunday it had no evidence that Bin Laden was dead. French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said that as far as he knew the Saudi-born al-Qaeda leader was still alive.
France, the United States and Britain all said earlier they were unable to confirm the report in French regional daily L'Est Republicain, which quoted a document from the DGSE foreign intelligence service.