Washington, Nov 29 (ANI): US President Barack Obama has termed the NATO raid that killed up to 28 Pakistani soldiers last week as a "tragedy."
White House spokesman Jay Carney said Obama believed that Saturday's attack was "a tragedy," adding that "we mourn those brave Pakistani service members that lost their lives. We take this matter very seriously."
He also assured that two inquiries by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan and US Central Command would examine what led to the attack that day.
"As for our relationship with Pakistan, it continues to be an important cooperative relationship that is also very complicated," The Dawn quoted Carney, as saying.
"It is very much in America's national security interest to maintain a cooperative relationship with Pakistan because we have shared interests in the fight against terrorism," he added.
Pakistan called the strike "unprovoked," worsening US-Pakistani relations, which were already in crisis after the killing of former al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in his Abbottabad compound in May this year. (ANI)
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