Pakistan Taliban leader killed in U.S. drone strike, official says Mullah Fazlullah, the head of the Pakistani Taliban, has been killed in a drone strike carried out by the U.S. He is responsible for several attacks against the U.S. and Pakistan, including an attack on a school in Peshawar, Pakistan that killed 151 people, most of them children. He is also responsible for ordering the attempted assassination of Malala Yousafzai in 2012.