Pakistan rejects results of US inquiry; distrust remains

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan on Friday rejected a US probe into the killing of 24 Pakistani soldiers, extending a crisis in its US alliance that is now overshadowed by a showdown between the government and military in Islamabad.

The Nov 26 US airstrikes on the border with Afghanistan plunged the precarious Pakistani-US alliance to its lowest ebb in a decade with both sides still in dispute about the precise sequence of events.

An inquiry, headed by a US Air Force general, blamed US and Pakistani forces for a series of mistakes that led to what was the deadliest single cross-border attack of the 10-year war in Afghanistan.