(160522) -- AHMAD WAL, May 22, 2016 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken with mobile phone on May 22, 2016 shows a destroyed vehicle believed to be hit by a U.S. drone strike in Ahmad Wal, a small town in Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province. Pakistani government sources have confirmed the killing of the Afghan Taliban top leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor in a Saturday U.S. drone strike in the country's southwest remote area of the Pak-Afghan border region, reported local Urdu TV channel ARY on Sunday. (Xinhua/Stringer)
Islamabad, June 2 (IANS) The US drone strike which killed Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansoor not only undermined relations with Pakistan but also affected the ongoing Afghan peace process, Pakistan's top foreign advisor said here on Thursday.
Sartaj Aziz, Foreign Affairs Advisor to the Prime Minister, dispelled the notion that the government preferred to remain silent on the attack, Geo TV reported.
"The impression that we are silent on this issue is not correct... the important thing is the drone attack in Noshki affected Pakistan-US relations and peace process in Afghanistan," he said while addressing the Senate.
Aziz clarified that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and army chief General Raheel Sharif were immediately informed about the strike.
Last month a US drone strike targeted a vehicle and killed then Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansoor and the driver in the country's resistive southern province of Balochistan.
The attack evoked strong condemnation from Pakistan's civil and military leadership, who termed it as an attack on the sovereignty of the country.
