The US military publication - Stars and Stripes has regurgitated the 2007 killing of American Major Larry Bauguess and accused "Pakistani government troops and intelligence officer" in its September 27, 2011 publication while the Pakistanis firmly maintain that the attack was carried out by a rogue soldier.
The details of the story as recounted by Stars and Stripes, as well as New York Times and Pakistani officials at the time are broadly similar: a dispute over a check post was the subject of a meeting between 12 men (US and Afghans) and Pakistani army officials that was held in a school in Teri Mangal, the bordering Kurram Agency and lasted 5 hours.
As the Americans and the Afghans were leaving for their vehicles they were "ambushed" by the Pakistanis, according to Stars and Stripes. The New York Times version notes that "a Pakistani soldier opened fire with an automatic rifle, pumping multiple rounds from just 5 or 10 yards killing Major Bauguess." The Pakistanis point out that it was a rogue soldier of Kurram Militia, who was killed by the Americans.
The incident created tension between Pakistani security forces and the Nato and Afghan troops for the time being. The situation caused by the incident prompted the local political administration along with officials of the Kurram Militia to visit bordering villages including Pewar, Borki, Kharlachi and Shingak to take the locals into confidence in case of any incursion from across the border.
One of the correspondents was also staying in village Borki when the local officials visited the tribal elders on the night of May 14, 2007 and sought their help in case of any incursion from across the border. The officials also asked the locals that they might be asked to vacate the villages along the Pak-Afghan border. The locals assured their full support and told the officials that they would fight side by side with Pakistan's forces in case any attack was launched from across the border.
According to an eye-witness, a US helicopter opened indiscriminate fire on the bordering posts on Pakistan's side injuring some soldiers. A Pakistan military official deputed in Parachinar, headquarters of Kurram Agency, recently told visiting journalists that he and his other junior officers narrowly survived the US copter shelling. The official further said that the soldier, who opened fire on the American and Afghan forces, was inexperienced and overwhelmed with religious beliefs.
According to a local journalist Azmat Alizai, the May 14 incident was followed by exchange of heavy fire from both sides and at the end Pakistani forces captured the disputed border post - Gavisar. He said that rogue soldier, a resident of southern district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, was greatly influenced by Talibanisation. The dispute over the ownership of the border post was, however, resolved with the help of a local jirga of the elders from both Pakistan and Afghanistan and it was decided that border post would be considered no-man's land for the time being.