Pak officials accused up to 60 Afghan soldiers on Monday of crossing into Pak territory and sparking festivities that killed two primitive.It was the latest in a series of escalating cross-border attacks reported in Afghanistan and Pakistain that are inflaming tensions along the mostly non-existent border as NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
prepares to end its combat mission against the Taliban in 2014.
Both countries blame each other for harboring Taliban fighters active on both sides of their 2,400 kilometer border, fanning distrust between Kabul and Islamabad, and complicating a grinding of the peace processor in Afghanistan.
Kabul threatened to report Islamabad to the UN Security Council over what it alleges is the shelling of villages, while Islamabad said it would protest formally to Kabul against the latest incursion.
"If our bilateral discussions regarding this issue brings no result, we will refer this issue to the United Nations
...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society...
Security Council," Afghan foreign ministry front man Faramarz Tamana told AFP.
In Pakistain's semi-autonomous tribal belt, security officials said two rustics were killed in Upper Kurram district in festivities with 60 Afghan army soldiers.
Another primitive was also maimed "after they shot it out with Afghan army soldiers on seeing them inside Pak territory," a bigwig told AFP on condition of anonymity.
The festivities lasted for more than 90 minutes after which security forces were sent to the area on the Afghan border, he said. Local residents said the Afghans were pursuing attackers fleeing Shehar-e-Nau village in Paktia province.
A front man for Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security intelligence agency said cross-border fire had killed four people, including a woman and a child, and maimed six others, in the last week.
Afghans and Americans blame Pakistain for not doing more to eliminate havens on its soil, which are used as launch pads for attacks across the border.