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Situation tense after Pak, US troops clash
PESHAWAR: The situation remained tense at Angoor Adda (Pak-Afghan border near Paktika province) on Tuesday following clashes between Pakistan’s paramilitary troops and US soldiers a day earlier.
Reliable sources from Angoor Adda told The News that following the Monday incident, Pakistan deployed its regular army to assist its already deployed paramilitary forces, Waziristan Scouts, to safeguard the border.
In the wee hours on Tuesday, unidentified attackers from inside Afghanistan again fired 12 rockets on Angoor Adda.
The sources said a week ago, unknown assailants started firing on the US troops when they were on routine mobile duty at the nearby Paktika province.
The US troops in retaliation killed Said Muhammad, a resident of Wana, headquarters South Waziristan Agency. The body was later brought to his hometown for burial.
A large number of people after attending funeral of Said Muhammad staged demonstrations against the US troops. On Monday the US troops came under fire from unknown assailants at the Pak-Afghan border. The US troops asked Pakistan’s paramilitary troops to hand over the accused.
The sources said that officials of the paramilitary forces told the US troops that they have no knowledge about whereabouts of attackers.
This enraged the US troops who tried to cross the Pak-Afghan border forcibly, which was strongly resisted by the Waziristan Scouts.
According to unconfirmed reports, heavy firing took place between the two sides resulting in the killing of seven US troops and injuring of one soldier from Waziristan Scouts.
The sources said Wana officials rushed to the area and avoided bloodshed.
Following the exchange of fire, the US gunship helicopters targeted a double-storey madressa-cum-mosque owned by Maulana Muhammad Hassan, former Taliban official and close relative of Said Muhammad.
The US forces dropped three missiles on the madressa. Two fell on the madressa destroying its walls and rooms while one fell on the nearby ground, the sources said.
No casualty was reported as the Maulana has already vacated the madressa.
Till the filing of this report, officials of both sides were said to be in a meeting on the border to normalize the situation.
Reuters adds: An American soldier wounded in Afghanistan at the weekend was shot in an exchange of gunfire with a Pakistani border patrol, prompting the US to drop a bomb on the border area, the US army said on Tuesday.
The American was part of a unit conducting a routine mission with Pakistani forces along the Afghan border when a disagreement appeared to break out, according to a statement released by the US military at their Afghan headquarters at Bagram air base.
“A Pakistani border scout opened fire with a G3 rifle after the US patrol asked him to return to the Pakistan side of the border,” the statement said.
“That individual and several others retreated to a nearby structure,” it added.
“Close air support was requested and one 500-lb bomb was dropped on the target area.”
The US military said the incident happened near the Afghan village of Shkin, which lies on the border with Pakistan.
“We are working with the Pakistanis for an accurate battlefield damage assessment from the incident,” it said.
The US statement did not give details of the joint US and Pakistani mission or say whether it was taking place inside Pakistan or Afghanistan. US forces patrolling eastern Afghanistan for al-Qaeda fugitives say they cooperate with Pakistani forces on the other side of the border, but do not cross into Pakistani territory to pursue fugitives. The US statement also did not say what the Pakistani border guard was doing inside Afghanistan. The wounded soldier was flown to Germany for medical treatment and is in stable condition, the US military said.
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