A policy under fire in Afghanistan. Nato supply trucks on the Pakistan border stand in ruins after militants launched rocket-propelled grenades sending some 29 vehicles up in flames.
This caps a week marked by a series of attacks in Afghanistan leaving at least 59 people dead -- mostly Shiite muslims. A Pakistan based militant group claimed responsibility for the attacks.
This comes at the end of a week that started with an international conference in Germany where NATO members pledged to stay in Afghanistan for the long haul -- a meeting that Pakistan boycotted after a NATO strike killed some 24 Pakistani soldiers in late November.
Now some members of Pakistan's military are saying their troops were intentionally targetted by NATO.
Brigadier General Carsten Jacobson in Kabul is the spokesperson for the International Security Assistance Force, or ISAF.
(SOUNDBITE) Brigadier General Carsten Jacobson, SAYING (English):
"It has been made very clear right from the outset by the commander of ISAF, by the chain of command that this was not only very unfortunate but a very regretful incident. It is definitely clear that it was not an intentional incident."
Jacobson says that it is in Pakistan's own interest to combat insurgents along its border.
(SOUNDBITE) Brigadier General Carsten Jacobson, SAYING (English):
"These are ruthless terrorists . These are murderers. These are people who are against every principle that is laid down in the Islamic religion. They ar bombing civilians they are killing innocents they are sending suicide bombers and children -- they do this over here in Afghanistan but they have also done it in the past in Pakistan, and they will continue to do it. It is in Pakistan's very own interest to operate against these terrorist And the more we can work together in this fight the better."
More than 2,800 foriegn soldiers have died in Afghanistan since the war was launched in 2001 according to icasualities.
Deborah Lutterbeck, Reuters.