Washington, Dec 3 (ANI): The US has said that Islamabad has decided not to join probe into the recent NATO attack that killed 28 Pakistani soldiers last Saturday.
Pakistan has turned down an US offer to carry out the probe jointly.
The Express Tribune quoted Captain John Kirby, the Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, as saying that the NATO air strike "has had a chilling effect on our relationship with the Pakistani military."
Referring to General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani's letter to his troops, Captain Kirby said, "Every sovereign nation has the right of self-defense and the right to order their troops to defend themselves. So do we. We respect that right of his."
On being asked about Pakistan's decision to cease cooperation with the US and Afghan forces along the border, Kirby said that they hoped that they would be able to continue the kind of coordination and communication that they had been working on with Pakistan before this incident.
"There had been a lot of effort put into our coordination on border control centres with Pakistanis before this incident, we hope that the same level of effort can continue," he added. (ANI)
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