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A US drone strike has killed a senior commander of the Taliban-linked Haqqani militant network in north-west Pakistan, officials say, according to the BBC. 

Intelligence officials say Sangeen Zadran was among six militants killed when two missiles fired at a house in North Waziristan, near Afghanistan.

Mr Zadran had been blacklisted as a terrorist by both the US and UN.

The US has blamed the Haqqani network for a series of high-profile attacks in the border regions in recent years.

There has been no official confirmation of the death toll. However, a spokesman for the Afghan Taliban has reportedly denied that Sangeen Zadran was killed in the strike.

Zadran also served as the Taliban's shadow governor of Afghanistan's Paktika province.

In 2011, the US state department added him to its list of specially designated global terrorists, claiming he led fighters in attacks across south-eastern Afghanistan and planned and co-ordinated the movement of hundreds of foreign fighters.

Pakistan's foreign ministry has condemned the strike as a violation of its sovereignty.