Islamabad, Nov 28(ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has threatened to review the country's role in facilitating the United States' talks with insurgents and re-think participation in next month's Bonn conference.
It comes after a cross-border NATO airstrike in Pakistan's Mohmand district killed 24 Pakistani soldiers wounded at least a dozen others.
"Pakistan will revisit its engagement with the US, NATO and the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF," Gilani told the Express Tribune.
Meanwhile, an unnamed Pakistani official said that the country's security establishment has already halted "all efforts to persuade the Afghan Taliban to come to the negotiating table."
The NATO attack is the worst single incident of its kind since Pakistan allied itself with Washington following the 9/11 terror attacks.
The incident prompted Pakistan to summon the US Ambassador in Islamabad, lodge a protest with NATO, and shut a vital supply route for NATO troops fighting in Afghanistan.
The Pakistani government also gave the US fifteen days to vacate Shamsi air base. Pakistan had made a similar demand earlier this year, following the raid which killed Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden. (ANI)
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