Pakistan army rejects NATO probe report

Pakistani army has rejected an investigation report into last month's NATO strike on two of its border posts, which killed 24 Pakistani soldiers and injured 13 others, according to local media.  The investigation report "is short on facts" and "has holes in it, which need to be filled in, " an army statement said.  "Detailed response will be given as when the formal report is received," said the statement from Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), a mouthpiece of Pakistani army.   Islamabad would not give a detailed response to the findings until it received a copy of the report, Local media quoted the Pakistani Army Spokesman Major General Athar Abbas as saying  .  Foreign Office Spokesman Abdul Basit also earlier stated that Pakistan will look at the findings very carefully and then articulate a response.  NATO spokesman Colonel Gregory Julian said in Brussels, "The investigation has ascertained that a series of mistakes were made on both sides in failing to properly coordinate their locations and actions, both before the operation and during the resulting engagement."  On Thursday, the Pentagon issued an investigation into the NATO cross-border strikes on two army check posts in Pakistan's northwest tribal area of Mohmand Agency bordering Afghanistan on November 26.  The report concluded that mistakes from both sides led to the airstrikes.  NATO and the United States did not tender apology in the findings and repeated the previous stand of expressing regrets by the NATO and the United States when they released the report on Thursday.  Pakistani army and civilian leaders have already rejected regrets and called for action against those responsible for the attack, which caused a dent in ties between the United States and Pakistan.