Fury in Pakistan as Nato strike kills 24

FURY spread in Pakistan yesterday over a Nato cross-border air attack that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers and could undermine the US effort to wind up the war in Afghanistan.

Hundreds of trucks carrying supplies to US-led troops in Afghanistan backed up at Pakistani border crossings yesterday, leaving them vulnerable to attack a day after Islamabad closed the frontier in retaliation for coalition airstrikes.

As the Pakistan army chief attended the funerals of the victims, the US sought to minimise the fallout.