NATO strikes inside Pakistan

NATO forces in Afghanistan respond to yesterdays rocket attack with artillery and aircraft, striking across the Pakistan border today.

Tensions are high as yesterday another strike from suspected militant forces across the Pakistan border that left 9 Afghan soldiers wounded.

Today NATO responded by striking at a location across Afghanistan's border with Pakistan.

NATO's International Security Assistance Force said in a statement released today, "The troops identified a (compound) as the point of origin of the attacks and responded in self-defence with a combination of fire from attack helicopters and artillery into Pakistan."

Afghanistan officials have blamed Pakistani agents for continued attacks across their borders in recent days.

While fighting escalates NATO denied it had any intention of mounting any incursion onto Pakistani.

"There is not, nor is there going to be, an incursion of NATO troops into Pakistan. There is no planning for, no mandate for, an incursion of NATO troops into Pakistan," according to NATO spokesman James Appathurai, but stated NATO forces "have the right to fire back in self-defence into Pakistan."