Two NATO helicopters on Tuesday launched a cross-border attack on a Pakistan army checkpoint in North Waziristan region, wounding two security personnel, local security officials said.
The attack took place in Wacha Bibi, 50 kilometres (30 miles) west of Miranshah, on Tuesday morning with two NATO helicopters entering Pakistani airspace from Afghanistan and attacking the checkpoint, they said.
“Two NATO helicopters committed the airspace violation and shelled an army checkpoint, injuring two soldiers,” a senior security official told AFP.
A spokesman for the international military alliance in Afghanistan said ISAF “had reports of a possible incident. We are looking into it”.
“I can’t confirm any of the details” of press reports,” Lieutenant-Colonel John L. Dorrian, said.
Pakistan temporarily shut the main land route for NATO supplies into Afghanistan last September after officials accused NATO of killing Pakistani troops in a cross-border attack.
The region is being targeted by a record number of US drone strikes, the number of which has doubled in the last year, with more than 100 strikes killing over 670 people, according to an AFP tally.
US drone strikes inflame anti-American feeling in Pakistan, which has worsened since a CIA contractor shot dead two Pakistani men in a busy Lahore street in January.
Two such US drone strikes targeting a militant compound and a vehicle in Pakistan’s tribal district of North Waziristan on Monday killed at least nine people.
What the #^@! are we waiting for, probably waiting for US to launch a full fledged war and then we might REQUEST them to stop the attacks and war. Have we lost all the honor and pride and no one cares for the nations handicapped, due to loans, sovereignty.
And now western military is saying that Pakistan attacked the helicopter first and helicopter returned the fire. http://www.pakistantoday.mbt.pk/2011/05/nato-heli…
incapable army
why the hell cant a sovereign country hit these helicopters with simple bazookas cuz they are in our territory.. as in .. what is the law regarding this ..?!
there is no law in pakistan. Its a country that should have never been made. People are brainwashed into becoming patriots, for no reason and I think it is time that Pakistan was taken over by some “BETTER” country, or these things will never stop.
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