Pakistan has proved with relevant pictures and maps that U.S.-led NATO forces deliberately carried out airstrikes that killed two dozen of its soldiers last month.

 

Amid an accelerating downward spiral in U.S.-Pakistan relations, Islamabad on Thursday made a presentation at the Pakistani Embassy in Washington on the November 26 cross border attack, The Christian Science Monitor reported. 

 

Senior Pakistani officials proved with relevant material that what happened in NATO’s deadly attack on a pair of Pakistani army border outposts at the Afghan border was not a mistake.

 

The evidence presented to international journalists also showed that the shooting by helicopter gunships continued for an hour after NATO forces told Pakistani officials at the posts that it would stop.

 

“We want to offer our view of the incident as we see it,” said the acting Pakistani ambassador, Iffat Imran Gardezi.

 

Ambassador Gardezi said that the Pakistani people would not tolerate any sign of their officials’ cooperation with NATO after the deadly attack.

 

She noted that this was the fourth incident of NATO attacking Pakistani forces in the recent past.

 

Gardezi added, “The entire population is against any cooperation at this time -- they want an apology.”

 

U.S. President Barack Obama has offered condolences for those killed in the attack but not an official apology.

 

Pakistan decided to halt the supply convoys destined for U.S.-led foreign soldiers occupying Afghanistan in response to the deadly airstrikes.

 

The U.S. military and other NATO member countries with fighting forces in Afghanistan rely heavily on the Pakistani supply route into the landlocked country, even more so now than previously with Taliban attacks on the rise.

 

On Sunday, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said that Islamabad would continue its blocking of NATO convoys supplying goods to U.S.-led foreign forces in neighboring Afghanistan. 

 

(Source: Agencies)