On Sunday, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said he was not notified ahead of time about a U.S. airstrike in his country targeting the head of the Afghan Taliban, Mullah Akhtar Mansour.
While speaking with reporters in London, Sharif said the strike was a "violation of Pakistan's sovereignty," Al Jazeera reports. U.S. officials say the strike was authorized by President Obama, and the drone targeted Mansour and other men in a vehicle in a remote part of Pakistan near its border with Afghanistan. Afghanistan's spy agency and the country's chief executive say the attack killed Mansour, and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Mansour posed a "continuing imminent threat" to Afghans and U.S. personnel still in the country. The Taliban has not issued an official statement.
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