The US drone strike targeting Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mansour on Pakistani soil was a violation of sovereignty', Pakistan's Foreign Ministry has said.
Mansour, in charge of the insurgent group since 2013, was reportedly killed while travelling along the Pakistan-Afghan border with another combatant.
The US drone strike targeting Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mansour on Pakistani soil was a violation of sovereignty', Pakistan's Foreign Ministry has said.
The US did not inform Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif before carrying out the strike, it added.
Mansour was killed at 4.30pm on Saturday in Dahl Bandin, a district in Pakistan's Baluchistan province just over the border with Afghanistan.
President Obama authorised the strikes against Taliban leader.
The Pentagon previously branded Mansour "an obstacle to peace and reconciliation between the government of Afghanistan and the Taliban" and said he was actively involved in planning attacks that threatened US, Afghan and allied forces.
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