Pakistan’s commanders in the wild Afghan border region can return fire if under attack without waiting for permission, the army chief said on Friday, a policy change that could stoke tensions after Saturday’s NATO strike killed 24 Pakistani troops. Exactly what happened in the attack is unclear. Two U.S. officials told Reuters early indications were [...]

Pakistan’s prime minister ruled out “business as usual” with the United States on Monday after a NATO attack killed 24 Pakistani soldiers and the army threatened to curtail cooperation over the war in Afghanistan. Saturday’s incident on Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan has complicated U.S. attempts to ease a crisis in relations with Islamabad and stabilize [...]

  The Pakistani foreign minister Sunday described a NATO attack that killed dozens of soldiers as “totally unacceptable,” saying it plunges the nation’s relationship with the United States into deeper crisis. NATO helicopters attacked a military checkpoint in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing 24 Pakistani soldiers, authorities in the nation said. The attack wounded 13 [...]

Pakistan has given the US 15 days to vacate an airbase used as a key launchpad for drone strikes in Afghanistan in retaliation for a mistaken attack on a Pakistani border outpost that killed at least 24 soldiers and injured 13. American forces were told to leave the remote Shamsi airbase, secretly given over to [...]