ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan is lodging a formal protest with "allied forces" in neighbouring Afghanistan over a suspected U.S. missile strike this week.

Army spokesman Maj.-Gen. Athar Abbas says Pakistan has concluded that Wednesday's attack on a house in Pakistan's border region was launched by drones from Afghanistan. The missile destroyed a house in Damadola, killing 14 people.

Abbas says a formal protest was lodged Friday with "allied forces" in Afghanistan, an apparent reference to the NATO-led force that is fighting the Taliban-led insurgency there.

He said it was unclear if any foreign militants were killed in the missile strike because local tribesmen sealed off the area after the attack.

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