RT Monitoring Desk
KABUL: NATO-led troops in Afghanistan used attack helicopters and artillery to fire into Pakistan after coming under rocket attacks from that side of the border, the alliance force said Wednesday.
The counterattack on Tuesday was launched from Afghanistan’s Paktika province, which adjoins Pakistan’s North Waziristan.
An International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) base had “received multiple rocket attacks from militants inside Pakistan,” ISAF said in a statement.
“The troops identified a qalat (mound) as the point of origin of the attacks and responded in self-defence with a combination of fires from attack helicopters and artillery into Pakistan,” it said.