WASHINGTON -  Taliban leader Mullah Mansour’s death has exacerbated fighting in Afghanistan and left the future of the Afghan peace process uncertain, warned an official US report released on Friday.
In its quarterly report to Cong­ress, the US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Recons­truction (Sigar) observed that in the second quarter of this year, the Taliban gained new territory and now control 19 of the country’s approximately 400 governing districts.
“Mullah Mansour’s death shuffled Taliban leadership, exacerbated fighting, and left the future of the peace process uncertain,” the report said.
Mullah Mansour was killed in a US drone strike in Balochistan on May 21, while returning from Iran.(DawnNews)