Police asked to investigate Mullah Mansour drone strike

The brother of a man killed alongside Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour in a US drone strike has asked for police to investigate his death.

Muhammad Azam, a Pakistani citizen, was driving Mansour from the Pakistan-Iran border to Quetta, in Pakistan, when a drone destroyed the car and killed both men.

Previously branded "an obstacle to peace and reconciliation between the government of Afghanistan and the Taliban" by the Pentagon, Mansour was killed last Saturday around 4.30pm.

Azam was a regular taxi driver on the route and was not connected to the Talibam, his brother Muhammad Qasim said in a police report, according to Reuters.

The "First Information Report" filed by Qasim would form the basis of any police investigation into the drone attack.

"My brother was innocent. And he was extremely poor. He has four young children. He was the sole breadwinner in his house," Qasim told police, according to the report, which was filed on Wednesday.

It does not name Mansour, identifying him only as Muhammad Wali, an identity he had been using while in Pakistan, complete with identification documents and a passport.

Pakistan confirmed Mansour's death for the first time on Sunday following DNA testing.