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.
NATO helicopter strike injures Pakistani security officers
