Pakistan allows insurgent attacks on US troops: general

WASHINGTON: Pakistani forces are allowing insurgents to launch rocket and mortar attacks on US troops across the border in Afghanistan and are possibly collaborating with the militants, a US general said Thursday.

“In some locations from time to time you will see what just appears to us to be a collaboration… or at a minimum a looking the other way when insurgents conducted rocket or mortar fire in what we believe to be (within) visual sight of one of their (Pakistan military) posts,” said Lieutenant General Curtis Scaparrotti, deputy commander of the NATO-led force in Afghanistan.