NATO helicopters from Afghanistan carried out an "unprovoked" attack on a Pakistani border post on Saturday, killing at least eight troops

NATO helicopters from Afghanistan carried out an "unprovoked" attack on a Pakistani border post on Saturday, killing at least eight troops, the Pakistan military and local officials said.
  
In Kabul, a spokesman for NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) told AFP: "We are aware that an incident did take place. We are still in the process of gathering information."
  
Pakistani security and military officials in the Mohmand tribal region, which is near the Afghan border, said an army major was among the eight dead in the pre-dawn incident.
  
A military spokesman said: "ISAF/NATO helicopters carried out unprovoked and indiscriminate firing on a Pakistani check post in Mohmand agency last night (early Saturday)."
  
Masood Kausar, Governor of the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, strongly condemned the apparent NATO firing, calling it unacceptable. In a statement he said the incident in which "eight Pakistani soldiers were martyred" was a violation of Pakistan's "sovereignty".