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Zardari warns US troops after exchange of fire

AP, Islamabad
Pakistan warned US troops not to intrude on its territory yesterday, after the two anti-terror allies traded fire along the volatile border with Afghanistan.
Thursday's five-minute clash adds to already heightened tensions at a time the United States is stepping up cross-border operations in a region known as a haven forTaliban and al-Qaeda militants.
The clash the first serious exchange with Pakistani forces acknowledged by the US follows a string of other alleged border incidents and incursions that have angered manyhere.
Speaking in New York, Pakistan's president tried to downplay the incident, saying only "flares" were fired at foreign helicopters that he said strayed into his country from Afghanistan.
US and Nato military officials said the ground troops and helicopters were in Afghan territory.
The escalating violence In Pakistan was also felt as far south as Karachi.
A police raid in Pakistan's commercial capital triggered a shootout Friday that killed at least one suspected militant, an official said.
Two suicide bombers blew themselves up Friday during a shootout with police and a third militant was believed buried in the rubble of a house destroyed in the blasts.policesaid.
The police raided the house in Karachi on a tip from a leader of an al-Qaeda-linked militant group, said Babar Khattak, the chief of police in Sindh province. Karachi is the capital of Sindh.
Pakistani government spokesman Akram Shaheedi urged US-led coalition forces "not to violate territorial sovereignty of Pakistan as it is counterproductive to the war on terror."
"It has been Pakistan's policy that we will not allow anyone to violate our sovereignty, ana we will continue to defend our territorial sovereignty," he said Friday.
The clash occurred as new Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari was in New York meeting with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and Afghan President Hamid Karzai was scheduled to meet with US Xr^sidentGeorgeW Bush on Friday.
iWo AmencanOH-SS reconnaissance helicopters, known as Kiowas, were on a routine patrol in the eastern province of Khost when they received small arms fire from the Pakistani border post, said Tech Sgt Kevin Wallace, a US military spokesman in Bagram. There was no damage to aircraft or crew, officials said.
Sarwar Shah, a 45-year-old bus driver who witnessed the incident, said two foreign choppers and a military vehicle were involved.
"I heard gunshots, but it lasted only for six or seven minutes," he told The Associated Press.
He said he was happy to see the Pakistan army firing at the helicopters, "If the army needs our help, we will help it against the Americans," Shah said.
US Central Command spokesman Rear Adm. Greg Smith said the helicopters had been escorting US troops and Afghan border police. When the helicopters were fired on, the ground forces fired rounds meant not to hit the Pakistani troops, but "to make certain that they realized they should stop shooting," Smith said from Centcom headquarters in Florida.
The Pakistani forces fired back during a skirmish that lasted about five minutes. The joint patrol was moving about a mile inside Afghanistan, with the helicopters above, Smith said.
The Pakistani military disputed the US version, saying its troops fired warning shots when the two helicopters crossed over the border and that the US helicopters fired back
"When the helicopters passed over our border post and were well within Pakistani territory, own security forces fires anticipatory warning shots. On this, the helicopters returned fire and flew back," a Pakistani military statement said.
In New York, Zardari said his military fired only "flares" at foreign helicopters that he claimed had strayed across the border from Afghanistan.
Zardari said before his meeting with Rice that his forces fired only as a way "to make sure that they know that they crossed the border line."
Later, in a speech at the UN General Assembly, Zardari vowed to continue the fight against terrorists but warned against allied incursions into Pakistan.
"Just as we will not let Pakistan's territory to be used by terrorists for attacks against our people and our neighbours, we cannot allow our territory and our sovereignty to be violated by our friends," Zardari said.