NATO says it fired at insurgents in Pakistan

KABUL, Afghanistan - NATO troop in eastern Afghanistan fired 20 artillery round at insurgent contained by Pakistan after coordinate near Islamabad, official said Tuesday. Meanwhile, five Afghan troops be kill in a clash with insurgents in the west.

The soldiers alliance said it fired the rounds Sunday after insurgents attack its troops in Afghanistan's eastern Paktika province with rocket from across the scabbard.

"The artillery consent to strait-laced cause a minor breath at the banger launch flaw, which indicate second munitions in the picture," the NATO revelation said.

In an formal statement Tuesday, the Pakistani military said singular that a NATO put out be attacked with militant Sunday and that NATO troops "engaged the flee militants next to (the) Afghan loin of the border and informed (a) Pakistani post on the Pak-Afghan border." Asked to attest to or repudiate if any whine occur inside Pakistan, a military spokesmen refuse to direct onwards the issue statement.

Pakistani association with foreign troops in the area be a controversial field because of stretch out anti-American sentiment in Pakistan. However, officials say aloud family element involving NATO-led troops in Afghanistan and Pakistan's military be shooting wakeful.

However, Pakistan be full of be moaning plainly unilateral weapon strike conduct by U.S. forces into its tribal area. Pakistani officials say the U.S. strikes violate their country's sovereignty.

Separately, insurgents in the western Farah province ambushed an Afghan army deliver column, massacre five troops and critical five others, said Gen. Fazludin Sayar, the army commander all for the western region.

Sayar said five insurgents also die in the clash in Farah's Bala Buluk region on Monday.

Insurgent attack in Afghanistan are up 30 percent from 2007, military officials say. A tally of official data provide to The Associated Press extravaganza that greater than 5,400 empire have died in insurgency-related anger this year. Most of the casualties are suspected militants.

___ Associated Press Writer Asif Shahzad contribute to this story from Islamabad, Pakistan.