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Summary US officers gave wrong coordinates to Pakistani counterparts to get clearance for Nato strike.
But the air strike as a result of the wrong information killed 24 Pakistani troops last weekend, UKs The Telegraph reported.The report said: A senior Pakistani military officer told The Sunday Telegraph that a border co-ordination unit - established to avoid exactly this sort of tragedy - was given incorrect details of a suspected Taliban position.The strike had begun before we realised the target was a border post, he said. The Americans say we gave them clearance but they gave us the wrong information.The co-ordinates had been checked with a Pakistani officer to ensure there were no friendly troops in the area, the pilots believed, and the Apache attack helicopters and lone AC-130 gunship had been given the go-ahead to unload their deadly payload on the mountainside.But as dawn arrived it became clear that a terrible mistake had been made. Twenty-four Pakistani soldiers lay dead, their border posts were a smoking ruin and a crucial alliance had been poisoned.However, the paper didn’t say whether it was a deliberate misinformation on the part of the US military are less-trained soldiers. In all probability, the US military gave wrong information to avoid the Pakistan Air Force scrambling its jets in the air.
