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Afghanistan
Pakistani Ambassador Claims Taliban Firing Across Border From Kunar
2014-06-27
[Tolo News] Pak Ambassador Syed Ibrar Hussain told a crowd gathered for a ceremony in Kabul on Wednesday that the Pak military will stop firing across the border once Taliban Death Eaters based in Afghanistan stop attacking them first.
Does either side recognize the concept of 'border'?
According to Ambassador Hussain, on Election Day two weeks ago, bully boyz based in Kunar killed 13 Pak soldiers and maimed 14 others by firing across the border. He said their assault was only made possible because the Pak military had been ordered to halt its own operations against Death Eaters in Afghanistan that day in order to ensure Pakistain was not accused of trying to disrupt the voting process.

"We had ordered our military not to fire rockets on Afghanistan so that Pakistain is not accused of disrupting the election process," Hussain said. "They stopped rocket shelling for one day and thirteen of them were killed and fourteen of them were maimed."

The Afghan-Pak border is notoriously porous and rife with Talibs and other terrorist groups aligned against the governments in Kabul and Islamabad.

Tensions have risen between the two governments over hostile exchanges in the region. Afghan politicians have decried reported civilian casualties and residential destruction caused by rocket attacks from the Pak military, and security officials have warned of possible retaliations.

On Wednesday, Ambassador Hussain blamed the Afghan cops for failing to properly police the area on the Afghan side of the border.

"Here, on this side of the border, alongside border areas in Kunar province
... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country.....
, there is no ANA check posts, so they do not know who attacks our forces from this side of the border," he said.

However,
ars longa, vita brevis...
 Afghan Ministry of Interior front man Sediq Sediqi denied the claims of the Pak Ambassador.
Posted by:Fred

#2  Shoot Back, overwhelmingly.
Posted by: Redeck Jim   2014-06-27 07:36  

#1  It's a change. Previously, it was Taliban in Pakistan firing into Kunar at our troops. New day, different pile of rocks.
Posted by: ed in texas   2014-06-27 07:20  

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