...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants...
aircraft attacked one of its military posts in the northwest near the Afghan border and it had expressed its serious concern to the US embassy in Islamabad.
The incident in the
Mohmand... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Bloody Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar...
tribal region comes after relations between the United States and its ally hit a new low following the killing of the late Osama bin Laden
... Maybe his Mom misses him...
by US SEALS in the Pak garrison town of Abbottabad in May.
The Pak Foreign Ministry said NATO aircraft intruded around 2.5 km (1.5 miles) inside Pak territory and attacked a military post.
Its statement said Pakistain had conveyed its "serious concern" to the US embassy.
"A joint inquiry of the incident has also been requested," it said, without saying when did the incident take place.
Local officials in Mohmand said it occurred early on Friday and that a few bombs were dropped but no casualties were reported.