Report: Mistrust and Bad Maps Led to Pakistani Border Incident
An investigation into a NATO attack that killed 24 Pakistani troops last month near the Afghan border has concluded that a combination of mistrust and bad maps led to the airstrikes on two Pakistani outposts, the U.S. Department of Defense and a NATO official said on Thursday.
“The report says we recognize we made mistakes, and that mistakes were also made by the Pakistanis,” said the NATO official, who could not be named because the Defense Department’s investigation has not yet been made public.
“We have a lot of work to do to improve coordination, and we’ve already implemented steps to do that,” the official said.