Officials have said that reports regarding the health of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak are doubtful because they aren't based on medical reports.

All eyes were on the health of the 82-year-old president following gall bladder surgery in Germany early this year, The Washington Times in a Monday article said.

A senior U. S. intelligence officer told the Times, "We know he is dying but we don't know when he will die."

Egyptian sources to the Emirati newspaper The National described the reports as "nonsense," pointing to the president's busy schedule as proof the president is in good health.

It has been reported that Mubarak during the weekend met with Israeli and Palestinian leaders as well as U. S. Middle East peace envoy George Mitchell. Egyptian media representative Makram Mohammad Ahmed told Egypt's independent newspaper al-Masry al-Youm the reports on Mubarak's health should be "looked at with big caution and suspicion as they are not based on medical reports."

German surgeons removed a non-cancerous polyp from Mubarak's small intestine in March.

The report further noted that Mubarak doesn't have a designated successor should he fall ill and he hasn't made his intentions known regarding presidential elections in Egypt in 2011. (With Inputs from Agencies)