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Pakistan’s military has rejected the findings of an inquiry carried out by the US and NATO regarding a strike on a Pakistani post near the Afghan border.

The strike killed 24 Pakistani soldiers and prompted Pakistan to close its borders to NATO convoys and to order US personnel to vacate the Shamsi air base.

The government says it is now carried out a review of its terms of engagement with the United States.

Al Jazeera’s Kamal Hyder met with the father of one of the victims of the November 26 strike in Charsadda, northwest Pakistan.

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The American commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan says he will investigate what Pakistan has called a deliberate assault on its border.
 
NATO aircraft killed more than two dozen Pakistani soldiers on Saturday. The alleged attack comes as the latest source of tension in a difficult year for Pakistan-US. relations following the US air raid into the Pakistani military town of Abottabad to kill Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
 
Pakistan responded by closing a supply route to NATO’s Afghanistan mission, and ordered the U.S. to leave an airbase.

Al Jazeera’s Rosiland Jordan reports from Washington.

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Geo News – Headlines 6/5/2010

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Geo News – Headlines 19/5/2010

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In other news Thursday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton issued a blunt warning to Pakistan\’s leadership to boost their anti-terror fight. She made the remarks during a visit to Afghanistan. Also, Basque separatists declared an end to their violent decades-long campaign to gain independence from Spain and France.

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