KABUL - At least 35 Taliban militants from Pakistan have been killed and several wounded by Nato-led forces inside Afghanistan, officials said, BBC reported on Tuesday. The militants were said to have crossed over into the Afghan province of Paktia to target coalition forces when they came under attack last week. Sources in Pakistans Waziristan tribal region told BBC that many of those wounded had now been brought back. Some were said to be receiving medical treatment in the town of Miranshah. Pakistan has been under severe pressure from the US in recent months to prevent militants based in its tribal regions from crossing into Afghanistan to fight Nato troops based there. Earlier this month Washington said that it was cutting $800m in military aid to Islamabad because of 'difficulties in its relationship with Pakistan. The coalition itself has confirmed the raid, saying it believed the fighters were moved into Afghanistan by the Haqqani group, long regarded by the US as an especially dangerous militant faction based in Waziristan. Reuters adds: Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Tuesday that Afghanistan will only sign a long-term 'strategic partnership deal with Washington if the United States meets Afghan conditions including an end to controversial night raids on homes. He also pledged that Afghanistan would pay for its own armed forces and police, but the only major prospective income stream for one of the poorest countries in the world is profits from mineral reserves that are still years from being mined. Washington is negotiating with the Afghan government on a deal to define the long-term American role in Afghanistan beyond the end of 2014, when NATO-led combat troops are due to leave after handing security control to the Afghan army and police. We are in negotiations over the strategic partnership; Afghanistan has laid out its conditions, Karzai said. The foreign troops must work within the Afghan legal framework; they should not take prisoners or go into Afghan homes at night; they must not own private prisons. Karzai was speaking at a ceremony celebrating the first phase of a years-long handover from NATO troops to Afghan security forces, which ended without major incidents last week. This gathering is based on our desire and will to take control of our country ... The international community is here to help us, but it isnt going to be permanent, he said. It remains unclear whether the strategic partnership agreement would explicitly refer to possible U.S. military bases in Afghanistan beyond 2014, but the new U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan said on Monday that the United States has no interest in creating permanent military bases in Afghanistan.