By IRNA,
Islamabad : Pakistan has lodged protest with Afghanistan-based NATO forces over cross-border shelling, which killed a Pakistani soldier, according to local media.
Three other soldiers also injured in the NATO shelling from Afghan side into the Pakistani border region of Ghulam Khan, the army spokesman said.
Pakistan has called for a flag meeting of the Pakistani, Afghan and NATO officials was also held review the situation, Dawn TV said.
It was not clear as to what prompted the firing and there had been confusing whether the NATO or Afghan troops exchanged fire with Pakistani forces.
Afghan media quoted the country’s border police claiming that Pakistani troops in North Waziristan fired mortars into Afghan territory on Wednesday. There had been no casualty on Afghan side and the Afghan troops also returned fire.
Correspondents in Miranshah, the center of North Waziristan, said that both sides exchanged heavy fire almost the whole day on Wednesday. They said locals also heard huge explosion in the border area on Thursday. There was no report of fresh casualty.
Pakistan has deployed thousands of troops along its some 2500 kilometers of porous border to check the cross-border movement of the militants.
U.S. and Afghan leaders claim that North Waziristan is the safe haven of militants, who plan attacks into Afghanistan on foreign and Afghan troops.
Pakistani is under pressure by the American authorities to launch major operation in North Waziristan.