However, It insists it is doing what it can and paying a heavyprice, pointing to its deployment of more than 1,00,000 troops in its increasingly restive northwest and a wave of suicide bombings across the country.
American officials have confirmed their forces carried out the September 3 raid near the town of Angoor Ada but have given few details of what happened.
Abbas said that Pakistan’s military had asked for an explanation but received only a “half-page” of “very vague” information that didn’t identify the intended target.
Pakistani officials have said the raid killed about 15 people, and Abbas said they all appeared to be civilians.
“Probably they (the US troops) meant to go into some other area, engage some other people,” he said. “As per our post-incident report, these were truck drivers, local traders and their families.”
How to reverse a surge in Taliban violence in Afghanistan has become a hot-button issue in the US presidential campaign and refocused attention on the porous border with Pakistan.
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