Islamabad - Six US military helicopters intruded into Pakistan airspace on Tuesday while operating against militants in eastern Afghanistan, the newspaper Dawn reported Wednesday.

It quoted unidentified officials and locals as saying the helicopter gunships appeared over Lawara Mandi area of the North Waziristan tribal region following an attack on US-led coalition forces in Pipali area across the border in Afghanistan.

Neither the US forces nor the Pakistani border forces took any action during the intrusions, the sources said.

Senior Pakistani military officers later flew to the area to assess the situation, according to the newspaper.

Pakistan's government signed a peace deal and stopped its military operations against the pro-Taliban tribes inhabiting North and South Waziristan regions earlier this month on the promise the tribes would not assist any militant activity across the border.

Islamabad signed the deal with the tribesmen, who have kinship relations in Afghanistan, as its military operations against the tribes was shifting their sympathies towards the Taliban.

US Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher stated in a speech in Washington last week that 'the agreement really has the potential to work.' But other US elements and its allies continue to blame the current surge in Taliban militancy in Afghanistan on Pakistan.

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