| NATO troops in eastern Afghanistan fired 20 artillery rounds at Taliban inside Pakistan after co-ordinating with Islamabad, officials said Tuesday. The ISAF said in a statement it fired the rounds Sunday after Taliban attacked its troops in Afghanistan's 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," it said. The Pakistan Army said in a statement only that NATO troops "engaged the fleeing militants on (the) Afghan side of the border and informed (a) Pakistani post on the Pak-Afghan border". |