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May 17, 2011 AFP Miranshah | Pakistan
May 17, 2011 AFP Miranshah | Pakistan
Helicopters with the NATO force in Afghanistan wounded two Pakistani soldiers on Tuesday in a cross-border attack, local officials said, and a day after the US tried to smooth a row over the killing of Osama bin Laden.
The two choppers opened fire on an army checkpoint in a restive tribal region in Pakistan's northwest after they were shot at, a Western military official in Kabul said.
The incident took place in Wacha Bibi, 50 kilometers (30 miles) west of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan tribal district, local security officials said.
Washington considers the tribal belt a hotbed of Al-Qaeda, where Taliban and other militants plot attacks on US troops in Afghanistan and on Western targets.
"Two NATO helicopters committed the airspace violation and shelled an army checkpoint, injuring two soldiers," a senior local security official told AFP.
It comes after the United States launched a raid from Afghanistan on May 2 that killed Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden near Islamabad, in an attack that embarrassed and angered the Pakistani military and leadership.
The last thing Pakistan needs now is a war with NATO.
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