Pakistan threatens to deploy weapons after Nato air-strikes

Pakistani Christian leader J Salik protests at Nato strikes.

PAKISTAN may deploy air defence weapons to the Afghan border to prevent future Nato air-strikes such as the ones last month that the Pakistani military claims were pre-planned and that killed 24 soldiers, a senior politician said yesterday.

The move came a day after hundreds of people protested in the capital Islamabad, against Nato strikes in the country.

US officials have denied last month’s attack was deliberate. The air-strikes against two army posts on the Afghan border added to anger that Pakistan felt over the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden in a Pakistani town in May.