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Soldier killed in clash near Afghan border
More than two dozen mortar rounds were fired into Pakistan from neighbouring Afghanistan, killing one Pakistani soldier and seriously wounding two others, officials said yesterday. Pakistani troops retaliated and fired mortars into Afghanistan after the attack by unknown forces on Sunday in North Waziristan, a rugged Pakistani tribal region, said Major General Shaukat Sultan, chief army spokesman. Pakistan also protested to US-led forces in Afghanistan, Major General Sultan said. "Pakistan has lodged a protest with coalition authorities in Afghanistan," he said.The clash was reported a day after an unmanned spy drone crashed in North Waziristan near the Afghan border. Another army official in Miran Shah, who asked that he not be identified, said the skirmish occurred in Saidqi, an area about 15 kms west of Miran Shah, near the Afghan border. It was not clear who was behind the shooting of about 25 mortars into Pakistani territory, Sultan said. "We don't know whether the fire came from terrorists or the Afghan national army," he said in the capital Islamabad. Posted by: Fred 2005-01-04 |
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