- Subscribe to PCF Networked Blog Daily Updates
- Subscribe to our Twitter / Google / Yahoo Daily Updates
Pakistan
army has rejected claim by Afghani stooge officials that four people were killed after
hundreds of shells and rockets were fired into Afghanistan’s border region from
the Pakistani territory.
“The
claim by afghan official that Pakistan troops fired 400 rockets across border
in Afghanistan is not correct,” a Pakistani military official said.
“Pakistani
troops only respond and engage militants from where they are attacked/fired
upon,” the official told the media.
The
official recalled that during last one year almost 15 cross border attacks have
been carried out from across the border by American-led TTP terrorists on Pakistani check posts
and civil population in Dir and Chitral districts in the northwest in which
over 100 civilian and security forces personnel have been killed.
Afghan
officials said that a few homes were hit during the attack, adding that these
attacks in nearby Nuristan had forced hundreds of families to flee the area.
Earlier,
23 Pakistani troops were killed on June 25 when CIA sponsored TTP insurgents crossed over
from Afghanistan and mounted a deadly ambush on a patrol of Pakistani security
forces.
Pakistani
Taliban, now based in Afghanistan border regions, routinely launch attacks on
Pakistani border posts, the army says.
Prime
Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf had said that the cross-border attacks by
TTP were high on the agenda during his visit to Afghanistan on July 19.
Pakistani
media has reported that the country’s ambassador in Kabul was summoned to the
Afghan Foreign Ministry on Sunday and a formal protest was lodged over rocket
firing from Pakistani soil into Afghanistan, which killed four people.
No comments:
Post a Comment