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Pak army protests against Nato rocket attack
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Army spokesman said a protest has been lauched against the incident in which a rocket fired during the battle hit a house on its side of the border, killing ten civilians.
Pakistan Army spokesman Gen. Waheed Arshad said one of several rockets which landed in Pakistan hit a house in Mangrotai area, killing ten civilians — six men, three women and one child.
Arshad said there also were reports of civilians killed on the Afghan side. Several civilians, including women and children, had straggled into Pakistan to seek medical attention, he said.
"They are not militants. They are not armed, they are civilians who were wounded," Arshad said.
An intensification of the fighting has translated into mounting civilian casualties that threaten to undermine the Western-backed effort to stabilize Afghanistan and prevent a Taliban comeback
Courtesy Geo