Seems like Pakistani Pushtoons will lose their house and the cow. Unless they start respecting the border.
Taleban fighters die in US attack
** Four Taleban fighters have been killed by a US air strike in Afghanistan, close to the Pakistani border, a US military spokesman said. ** The attack targeted a group of militants loading rockets on a truck near a cave 2km (1.2 miles) inside the Afghan border, US forces said.
US forces denied a claim by some officials in Pakistan that the attack had taken place on Pakistani territory.
Pakistanis have protested over past US air strikes on their territory.
A US missile strike in January, reportedly targeting top al-Qaeda officials, killed more than a dozen people and prompted complaints from Islamabad that Pakistani sovereignty had been violated.
Much of Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan is not clearly delineated and passes through rugged, mountainous terrain.
** ‘Tribesmen wounded’ **
US military spokesman Lt Col Paul Fitzpatrick said on Monday that global positioning technology had confirmed the attack took place within Afghanistan.
“We know where the borders are of the two counties,” he said.
He said a joint team of US and Afghan soldiers had ordered the attack after observing Taleban fighters loading rockets onto a truck near a cave.
Troops visiting the scene after the attack “found four dead enemy combatants and captured one combatant”, he said.
Pakistani military officials had earlier said the attack had taken place on their territory.
However, the Pakistani army’s top spokesman, Maj Gen Shaukat Sultan, rejected this.
But, he said, three Pakistani tribesmen hurt in the attack on the Afghan side of the border had been brought to Pakistan for treatment.
Attacks by fighters linked to Afghanistan’s ousted Taleban militia have risen recently.
US troops have been hunting Taleban and their al-Qaeda allies in eastern Afghanistan in co-ordination with Pakistani forces across the border.
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