03 February 2005	Thursday	23 Zilhaj 1425

ISLAMABAD, Feb 2: Pakistan on Wednesday rejected a US military claim that its forces were helping American troops in Afghanistan to aim artillery fire at rebels on the Pakistani side of the border.

"Not at all, it is baseless, it has got no truth," military spokesman Major General Shaukat Sultan told AFP in response to remarks by Colonel Cardon Crawford, director of operations for the US military command in Afghanistan.

Maj-Gen Sultan said Pakistani forces were cooperating with US-led coalition troops who are on the other side of the porous frontier but "it is a cooperation in terms of intelligence sharing." "It is not in terms of inviting their (coalition) fire onto our territory," Maj-Gen Sultan said. -AFP