NATO plans to conduct a thorough investigation into the airstrike in Pakistan, which killed 25 Pakistani soldiers, Sky News TV channel said on Saturday.
“We will thoroughly investigate the incident,” the channel quoted a NATO representative as saying.
Pakistani TV channels earlier said that several NATO helicopters had violated the airspace of Pakistan from the territory of Afghanistan and attacked a check post in Mohmand tribal area in northwest Pakistan. At least 25 soldiers were reported killed, while 14 people were injured.
Pakistan’s embassy in the United States has already expressed formal protest over NATO’s airstrike in Pakistan.
Earlier on Saturday Pakistan’s authorities closed one of NATO’s key supply routes to Afghanistan, the so-called northern supply route through the Khyber Pass and Torham border post. This route is considered the most convenient out of two NATO’s Pakistani routes to Afghanistan.
Currently over 70 percent of all NATO’s supplies are shipped to the NATO troops in Afghanistan through Pakistan.
According to Pakistani commentators, NATO’s airstrike on the check post will complicate the already strained relations between Washington and Islamabad.
