NATO says it fired at insurgents in Pakistan

By: sudhir

Peshawar : Pakistan | about 1 year ago

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NATO troops in eastern Afghanistan fired 20 artillery rounds at insurgents inside Pakistan in an attack the alliance said was coordinated with the government in Islamabad.

Meanwhile, clashes in both nations killed at least 25 people, officials said Tuesday, including seven left dead after Taliban militants elsewhere in Pakistan's northwest attacked pro-government tribal elders.

Pakistan and foreign forces in Afghanistan have stressed the need for coordination in battling al-Qaeda and Taliban militants that nest on both sides of the frontier. Pakistani coordination with foreign troops in the region, while not unusual, is nonetheless a sensitive subject because of strong local opposition to the presence of Western troops.

The military alliance said it fired the rounds Sunday after insurgents attacked its troops in Afghanistan's eastern Paktika province with rockets from across the border.

"The artillery fire caused a secondary explosion at the rocket launch site, which indicates additional munitions in the location," the NATO statement said.

In an official statement Tuesday, Pakistan's military said only that a NATO post was attacked by militants Sunday and that NATO troops "engaged the fleeing militants on (the) Afghan side of the border and informed (a) Pakistani post on the Pak-Afghan border."

Asked to confirm if any activity occurred inside Pakistan, a military spokesman refused to go beyond the issued statement.

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