Pakistan Views

Two women and two children were killed by artillery shells fired by US-led coalition forces in neighbouring Afghanistan, the army said on Thursday.
The army spokesman said the shells destroyed the victims’ house in the region of North Waziristan. “The coalition forces were firing at a group of militants when five shells landed in Pakistan, destroying a house and killing two women and two children,” chief army spokesman Athar Abbas told AFP. “We have lodged a very strong protest with the coalition forces across the border,” he said. Local officials said the house in the town of Lwara Mundi, a hotbed of militancy on the frontier where there have been frequent clashes between security forces and militants, belonged to a local tribesman. Nato-led forces in Afghanistan said on Wednesday they had killed two women and two children in southern Afghanistan, which borders Pakistan, but it was unclear if they were describing the same incident.