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Summary Pakistan Army and the government have received the US investigation report regarding Salala attack.
Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General confirmed that the report was received. “However, the report has been analyzed and after studying it a press release would be issued in this connection,” he added.Sources said that copy of the investigative report pertaining to the NATO attack perishing 24 Pakistani soldiers in Mohmand Agency along Afghan border was also handed over to president and prime minister of Pakistan as well.Pak Army has handed over the report to Directorate of Military Operation, said the sources.At the dawn of November 26, NATO raided Pakistani post causing causalities and resulted in restraining Pak-US relations as it created reaction across Pakistan.Pakistan blocked supply to NATO in Afghanistan as an immediate step and ordered US to vacate Shamsi base, operative station of US. After the incident Pakistan even started rethinking over its foreign policy and reviewed its relations with US by calling conference of Pakistani envoys.Several NATO countries including US and Turkey vowed to launch impartial probe into the incident and prepared a detail report in this connection last week, however, Pakistan had disagreed with findings of the investigation.According to US State Department, Pakistani Army chief was told that a brief team would be send along with the report. The Pentagon insisted that a NATO air strike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers near the Afghan border was in no way a deliberate US attack on Pakistan.The incident over the weekend infuriated Islamabad, with Pakistani officials saying the air strike was unprovoked and possibly a premeditated act of aggression.But Pentagon officials said a military investigation would uncover exactly what took place on Saturday along the Afghan-Pakistani border and maintained that the United States had not set out to kill Pakistani troops.Whatever happened on the border with Afghanistan and Pakistan was a tragedy. Weve expressed regret for it as well as condolences for the loss of life. In no way, shape or form can this be construed as an intentional attack on Pakistan by the United States, US Defense Department spokesman George Little told reporters.Meanwhile, the top US military officer rejected accusations by Pakistans army that NATOs cross-border air attack that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers was a deliberate act of aggression.
