Pakistani military spokesman Major General Shaukat Sultan said the fighting occurred late yesterday in the North Waziristan tribal region.
A spokesman for the U.S. military, Lieutenant-Colonel Jerry O'Hara, said U.S. artillery and aircraft had responded to a rocket attack on a border control point, in which one Afghan soldier was killed.
In a separate incident, at least seven Afghan policemen were killed today in an attack in the southern Kandahar Province in which four suspected Taliban militants also died.
(compiled from agency reports)
A spokesman for the U.S. military, Lieutenant-Colonel Jerry O'Hara, said U.S. artillery and aircraft had responded to a rocket attack on a border control point, in which one Afghan soldier was killed.
In a separate incident, at least seven Afghan policemen were killed today in an attack in the southern Kandahar Province in which four suspected Taliban militants also died.
(compiled from agency reports)
