Pakistan clash 'kills US soldier'

A Pakistani soldier also died in the shooting, Maj Gen Waheed Arshad said. He blamed the attack on militants.

A Nato statement said one of its personnel had been killed but did not confirm the soldier's nationality.

Maj Gen Arshad denied Afghan government claims a Pakistani officer opened fire on the visiting US and Afghan soldiers.

Nato spokeswoman Lieutenant Colonel Maria Carl said she had little information about "who did it or anything else, other than that they received gunfire after leaving this border meeting".

Besides the Nato fatality, the alliance said two of its soldiers and two civilian employees were injured in the incident.

Border clashes

Representatives of the two countries and Nato were meeting to try to calm tension after cross border clashes over the weekend, the BBC's Alastair Leithead reports from Afghanistan.

The fighting had seen Afghan and Pakistani troops trading gunfire across the border, leaving several people dead, some of them civilians.

Tensions between the two neighbours are high, with Afghanistan frequently accusing the Pakistanis of failing to prevent infiltration by Taleban fighters.

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