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The 2011 NATO attack in Pakistan (also known as the Salala incident, Salala attack or 26/11 attacks) [5] [6] was a border skirmish that occurred when United States-led NATO forces engaged Pakistani security forces at two Pakistani military checkposts along the Afghanistan–Pakistan border on 26 November 2011, with both sides later claiming that the other had fired first. [7]
The border skirmishes between the United States and Pakistan were the military engagements and confrontations between Pakistan and the United States that took place along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border from late 2008 to late 2012 resulting in the deaths of 55 Pakistani personnel with a unknown number of U.S. casualties.
However, Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik said, "drone missiles cause collateral damage. A few militants are killed, but the majority of victims are innocent citizens." [41] The strikes are often linked to anti-American sentiment in Pakistan and the growing questionability of the scope and extent of CIA activities in Pakistan.
The Datta Khel incident was a skirmish that took place between a United States helicopter and Pakistani forces took place in the Datta Khel area on May 17, 2011. According to NATO, a hasty American occupational encampment along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border took direct and indirect fire from Pakistan.
The skirmishes took place over many locations along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, including North Waziristan, South Waziristan, Wana, Dera Ismail Khan, Shangla, Khost, and Paktika. [12] Subsequent attacks were also launched in Turbat and Gwadar in Balochistan province, by the Balochistan Liberation Army.
They share a 900-kilometre (560-mile), largely lawless border where smugglers and fighters roam freely. Insurgencies on either side of the Iran-Pakistan border have frustrated both countries.
On 30 September 2010, U.S. helicopters entered Pakistani airspace after ground troops determined that a mortar attack by militants in Pakistan was imminent, according to the Coalition. Pakistani Frontier Corps troops manning the Mandata Kadaho border post fired warning shots, and the helicopters responded by firing two missiles that destroyed ...
Pakistan says it has completed fencing along 97% of the border to stop cross-border attacks and smuggling. Pakistan also accuses the Afghan Taliban of providing sanctuaries to Pakistani militants ...