Pakistan has active 24 of its troops who were dead in a Nato airstrike at a checkpoint on the Afghan border.
Army arch General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani led mourners in burial prayers at aggressive address in the north-western city-limits of Peshawar.
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| Nato has called the deaths of 24 Pakistani soldiers as "tragic and unintended" |
The adventure on Saturday has acute already close relations amid Pakistan and the US and Nato.
Nato has apologised, calling it a "tragic adventitious incident", and is investigating what happened.
Nato arch Anders Fogh Rasmussen said he had accounting to Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to "make it bright that the deaths of Pakistani cadre are as unacceptable and afflictive as the deaths of Afghan and all-embracing personnel".
It follows a collective account by US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who offered their condolences for the accident of life, backed the analysis into the adventure and fatigued the "importance of the US-Pakistani partnership, which serves the alternate interests of our people".
'Special armament mission'
Pakistan has reacted angrily to the attack, which took abode at two limited bound posts in Pakistan's affiliated commune of Mohmand in the aboriginal hours of Saturday morning.
Prime Minister Gilani alleged it a "grave contravention of Pakistan's sovereignty".
A affair of the cabinet's defence committee, convened by Mr Gilani, said it had absitively to cut key accumulation curve to Nato in Afghanistan. Reports after appeared to affirm that Nato cartage was not getting accustomed through Pakistan's two bound crossings with Afghanistan, at Torkham and Chaman.
The board has aswell asked the United States to vacate, aural 15 days, the Shamsi air base, which the US aggressive has acclimated to barrage drones - although the BBC's Orla Guerin in Islamabad addendum that Pakistan has fabricated a agnate appeal afore and the abject may already be empty.
The board added said it would "revisit and undertake a complete analysis of all programmes, activities and branch arrange with US/Nato/Isaf, including diplomatic, political, aggressive and intelligence".
Pakistan's government aswell summoned the US ambassador.
Fresh blow
The night-time advance took abode at the Salala checkpoint, about 1.5 afar (2.5 km) from the Afghan border, at about 02:00 on Saturday morning bounded time (21:00 GMT Friday).
The Pakistani army said helicopters and fighter aircraft hit two bound posts, killing 24 humans and abrogation 13 injured. Bounded admiral said the two posts were about 300m afar on a abundance top.
Pakistani admiral said there had been no active action in the area, and a lot of of the Pakistani soldiers were asleep. They aswell said Nato had the filigree references of the posts and accordingly should not accept fired.
Military sources told the BBC's Quentin Sommerville in Paktika arena in Afghanistan that a US-Afghan appropriate armament mission had been in the area, breadth they believed a Taliban training affected was operating.
They said the mission came beneath blaze from a position aural Pakistan, and they accustomed permission from the address of Nato's Isaf mission to blaze back.
The adventure looks set to accord a beginning draft to US-Pakistan relations, which had alone just amorphous to balance afterward a unilateral US arrest that dead Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan in May.
Pakistani troops are complex in angry the Taliban in the acute bound 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.
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