Pakistan orders review of all cooperation with US, Nato

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ISLAMABAD, Nov 27 (agencies): Pakistan Sunday conveyed its "rage" to the United States over cross-border NATO air strikes that killed 24 soldiers, as it ordered a full-scale review of its frosty alliance with the US and NATO. The United States, which depends on Pakistan as a vital life-line to supply 130,000 foreign troops fighting in landlocked Afghanistan, on Sunday scrambled to salvage the alliance, backing a full inquiry and expressing condolences. Key questions remain about exactly what happened in the early hours of Saturday in Pakistan's tribal district of Mohmand, where Pakistan says two border posts were fired upon "unprovoked". Investigators are likely to look at whether Afghan and American troops operating on the Afghan side of the border could have been fired upon first-whether by insurgents or Pakistani military. On Sunday, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar telephoned US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and conveyed a "deep sense of rage" as the military organised a joint funeral for the 24 troops who died. Khar said attacks on military outposts were "totally unacceptable" as they contravened international law and violated Pakistani sovereignty-inflaming US-Pakistani relations still reeling from the May killing of Osama bin Laden. She spoke to Clinton to inform her of decisions taken at an emergency meeting of cabinet ministers and military chiefs, which has seen Pakistan seal its Afghan border to NATO supply trucks and order a review of relations. "The foreign minister conveyed to the secretary of state, the deep sense of rage felt across Pakistan at the senseless loss of 24 soldiers due to the NATOISAF attack on the Pakistani post," the foreign ministry said. Meanwhile: Pakistan on Sunday buried 24 troops killed in a NATO cross-border air raid that has pushed a crisis in relations with the United States toward rupture. The attack was the latest perceived provocation by the United States, starting with the secret raid which killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in May, and the question is whether ties will break or whether the two sides will remain stuck in a bad marriage of convenience.