Pakistani supporters hold prayers for slain Taliban chief

During the news brief, Toner said that the attack against Mullah Mansour was based not only on his previous actions but also his intent to carry out additional strikes against Afghan forces and the USA military forces on ground in Afghanistan.

The US has asked Pakistan to co-operate with India in the 26/11 investigations and appealed them to check all terror groups operating in their soil.

“We have been very clear-eyed and very clear in our interaction with Pakistan where we’ve believed that they need to do more to root out terrorists, who find safe haven on some of their territory, and we’re going to continue to do that”, he said.

U.S Senator Bob Corker, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has said that Pakistan’s support can help destabilise the Taliban far more rapidly than US military operations alone could.

“The Taliban is not likely to come with the government of Afghanistan shortly”, despite the organisation’s new leaders to the table for peace talks, US President Barack Obama said Thursday.

Mullah Mansour was targeted in a United States drone strike on Saturday while he was coming from Iran to Pakistan.

Hekmatyar said that “on the one hand we are carrying out the peace process; we also condemn this act of terrorism in the strongest terms and call the Iranian act big and unforgivable treason”.

Meanwhile, Toner has also urged Pakistani Government to cooperate with the Indian authorities to fully investigate the Mumbai terrorist attacks. It was a awful tragedy. Toner refused to acknowledge that the Washington no longer trusted Islamabad as an ally and conveyed USA concerns on the alleged presence of certain “terrorist” groups in Pakistan.