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2021-08-31 India-Pakistan
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Pakistani Military Opens Fire on Afghan Refugees at Border, Kills 6
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[BREITBART] Pak troops opened fire on a group of Afghan civilians attempting to cross into Pakistain from Afghanistan on Friday, killing at least six people, Pajhwok Afghan News reported.
The incident reportedly occurred at the Torkham border crossing, a major trade and travel corridor linking Afghanistan and Pakistain. Torkham is the name of the Pak city on the eastern side of the border crossing, while the western side of the port pertains to the Afghan province of Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
An unknown number of Pak soldiers "opened fire" on an unknown number of Afghan civilians at Torkham on August 27 "when they rushed towards the crossing gate and wanted to enter [the] Pak side," according to Pajhwok Afghan News.
"Some sources confirmed six people were killed and two others injured in the incident," the news outlet revealed, adding that provincial officials in Nangarhar "have not spoken about the incident."
Pakistain’s federal government ordered the total closure of the Torkham crossing this week to avoid an influx of Afghan refugees fleeing the Taliban
 ...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
terror group’s recent takeover of Afghanistan, an unnamed Pak border official told the U.K.’s Telegraph newspaper on August 26.
"We have closed the border on the government’s directives because Pakistain cannot afford to house more refugees. Pakistain is already home to three million Afghans," the border official said.
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