By IRNA,
Islamabad : Tension cleared between US and Pakistan on Wednesday after the US air strike killed 11 Pakistani troops.
The Pakistani military denounced the US air strike on troops as a “cowardly attack”.
Details of the incident, at a security post on the border with Afghanistan, are still unclear.
Reports suggest it took place as US-led forces operating in Afghanistan were tackling pro-Taleban militants.
The US has not commented on the report, which comes amid rising tensions between the US and Pakistan militaries.
The soldiers’ deaths occurred in the Mohmand region, one of Pakistan’s tribal areas, across the border from Afghanistan’s Kunar province, late on Tuesday.
Eight Taleban militants were also killed in the clashes, a Taleban spokesman said, although it remains unclear exactly how and where they died.
In a statement, the Pakistani military quoted a spokesman who condemned “this completely unprovoked and cowardly act”, which it blamed on “coalition forces”.
The spokesman said the incident “hit at the very basis of cooperation and sacrifice with which Pakistani soldiers are supporting the coalition in war against terror”.