Pakistan protests after US strike kills four civilians

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Re: Pakistan protests after US strike kills four civilians

@pride

Pakistan needs a strong PM and President to deal with this nonsense seriously.

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Pakistan protests after US strike kills four civilians

MIRANSHAH, Pakistan, March 13 (AFP): Pakistan lodged a protest with coalition forces in Afghanistan Thursday after two Pakistani women and two children were killed by US fire from across the border, the army said. The US-led coalition confirmed that it had launched a “precision guided” strike on Pakistani territory but said it targeted a militant compound. Chief Pakistani military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas said coalition artillery fire destroyed the victims’ house in the tribal region of North Waziristan. “The coalition forces were firing at a group of militants when five shells landed in Pakistan, destroying a house and killing two women and two children,” Abbas told AFP. “We have lodged a very strong protest with the coalition forces across the border,” he said. Local officials said the house in the town of Lwara Mundi belonged to a local tribesman. In Kabul, a spokesman for the US-led coalition said it could not comment directly on the Pakistani account but confirmed it had launched a strike on the other side of the porous 1,500-mile frontier. “We can confirm a precision-guided ammunition strike on March 12 on a compound connected with Haqqani network 1.5 kilometres (about a mile) across the border in Pakistan,” coalition spokesman Major Chris Belcher told AFP. “I do not have any information on any casualties that may have occurred,” the spokesman said. Belcher said that “The information I have is that the government of Pakistan was notified immediately following the strike.” (First Posted @ 14:00 PST, Updated @ 16:05 PST)

then you might have gone for Wrestling competition instead of elections