DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Pakistan's Taliban chief has been killed in a CIA missile strike and his body buried, three Pakistani intelligence officials said Friday. But one of the three said no intelligence agent had actually seen the remains.

The officials said Mehsud was killed in Wednesday's missile attack on the home of his father-in-law and that his body was buried in the village of Nardusai in South Waziristan, not far from the site of the missile strike.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

One official said he had seen a classified intelligence report stating Mehsud was dead and buried, but agents had not seen the body as the area was under Taliban control.

Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik said he could not confirm Mehsud's death, but that information pointed in that direction.

"There is no confirmation to his death as far as the evidence is concerned. I repeat again, yes, the information is pouring from that area that he is dead," Malik told reporters outside Parliament.

The minister urged Mehsud's associates to abandon their leaders and to "serve Islam in true meaning and serve Pakistan as this country has given them refuge."

Malik said no Pakistani military operation was going on in South Waziristan, and that only selective targets were being hit. Mehsud, however, was believed to have been killed in an American strike, the intelligence officials said.

"I have already said that it is a targeted operation, it is a targeted law enforcement action against Baitullah Mehsud's group and it will continue till Baitullah Mehsud's group is eliminated forever," he said.