Islamabad: The Afghan Taliban supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour said in an audio message that he was alive and safe after Afghanistan officials claimed that Mansour was killed in a scuffle in Pakistan.

"There is no truth in the rumours that I was either injured or killed in the infighting at Pakistan's Kuchlak area. This is enemy's propaganda. The enemy has launched the propaganda to claim that the Taliban differences have led to infighting," Xinhua quoted Mansour as saying on Saturday.