Pakistani admiral accept accused Nato helicopters of battlefront on a aggressive checkpoint abreast Pakistan's Afghan border, killing 26 soldiers.
The "unprovoked and indiscriminate" advance took abode in Mohmand affiliated region, the Pakistani aggressive said.
In response, Pakistan has bankrupt the apprenticed bridge for food apprenticed for Nato armament in Afghanistan.
The Nato-led force in Afghanistan says it is investigating and has offered condolences to any afflicted families.
The declared advance took abode at the Salala checkpoint, about 1.5 afar (2.5 km) from the Afghan border, Reuters reports, at about 02:00 bounded time (21:00 GMT).
Two admiral were a allotment of the dead, admiral said, and seven soldiers were appear wounded.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani "has acerb accursed the Nato/Isaf (International Aegis Assistance Force) advance on the Pakistani post," the adopted admiral appear according to AFP account agency.
"On his directions, the amount in getting taken up by the adopted ministry, in the arch terms, with Nato and the US," it added.
The BBC's Shoaib Hasan in Karachi says Pakistani admiral are furious, arguing there was no active activity in the breadth at the time.
The adventure risks ambidextrous a beginning draft to US-Pakistan relations, which had alone just amorphous to balance afterward a unilateral US arrest that comatose Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan in May.
'Heartfelt condolences'
A arch Pakistani aggressive administrator told Reuters account bureau that efforts were beneath way to carriage the bodies of the comatose soldiers to Mohmand's capital boondocks of Ghalanai.
"The latest advance by Nato armament on our column will accept austere repercussions as they after any affidavit attacked on our column and comatose soldiers asleep," he said, requesting anonymity because he was not authorised to allocution to the media.
Masood Kausar, governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, reportedly accursed the advance as "unacceptable and intolerable".
In a statement, Isaf administrator Gen John R Allen said the adventure "has my accomplished claimed absorption and my charge to thoroughly investigate it to actuate the facts.
"My a lot of aboveboard and claimed ardent condolences go out to the families and admired ones of any associates of Pakistan Aegis Armament who may accept been comatose or injured."
In credible acknowledgment to the attack, lorries and ammunition tankers were getting chock-full at Jamrud boondocks in the Khyber affiliated arena abreast the city-limits of Peshawar, admiral and bounded media said - allotment of a key accumulation avenue which delivers 80% of Nato's accessories to Afghanistan.
"We accept apoplectic the food and some 40 tankers and trucks accept been alternate from the analysis column in Jamrud," Mutahir Zeb, a arch government official, told Reuters.
Pakistani troops are complex in angry the Taliban in the acute apprenticed arena area. Hundreds of militants accept been afraid attempts by the aegis armament to bright them from southern and south-eastern locations of the district.
Anti-militant operation
The checkpoint at the centre of this latest adventure was set up to anticipate insurgents bridge over the apprenticed into Afghanistan, our contributor says.
He says the movement of insurgents from the breadth into Afghanistan has been a affair for the Nato-led Isaf and the US.
The US has been targeting militants in Pakistan's affiliated areas abreast the Afghan apprenticed for several months, generally application unmanned bombinate aircraft.
Last year, US helicopters accidentally comatose two Pakistani soldiers abreast the border, aswell bidding Pakistan to briefly abutting the apprenticed to Nato supplies.
In October, Pakistan's army arch Ashfaq Kayani warned the US adjoin demography unilateral activity in adjacent North Waziristan.
He said that the US should focus on stabilising Afghanistan instead of blame Pakistan to advance active groups in the acute apprenticed region.
Washington has for abounding years apprenticed Islamabad to accord with militants in the area.
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