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| India-Pakistan |
| Kabul urges end to Pakistani border attacks |
| 2011-06-25 |
| [Dawn] The Afghan government on Friday called for an end to cross-border attacks from Pakistain, warning that such incidents could affect "improving trust and cooperation" between the two wary allies. "The ministry of foreign affairs of Afghanistan expresses its serious concern about the continuing Pak artillery shelling of Afghan villages in Kunar and Nangarhar ...on the main road from Lovely Peshawar. The capital is Jalalabad. The population of 1,334,000 consists mostly of Pashtuns with a few Arabs and Pashais... provinces," it said. The ministry said that Pak shelling killed four children late Thursday in the northeastern province of Kunar, the latest in a series of incidents. "The Afghan government calls for the immediate cessation of the artillery fire against Afghan villages," it said. "The continuation of such incidents could adversely affect the spirit of improving trust and cooperation between the Islamic Theocratic Republicof Afghanistan and the Islamic Theocratic Republicof Pakistain." The border between Afghanistan and Pakistain is porous, and relations between the two countries have long been strained over the presence of faceless myrmidons fighting against both governments. Both sides have made a string of claims and counter-claims in recent days. Last week, Pak officials said five people were killed when several hundred faceless myrmidons crossed from Afghanistan and targeted civilians in the Mamoond area of the lawless border tribal district of Bajaur. But Afghan officials denied any attack and accused Pak troops of killing six people in a rocket strike in Kunar, as well as other attacks in volatile Kunar and Nangarhar. The statement came after Afghanistan's foreign minister Zalmai Rassoul met the Pak ambassador to Kabul over the issue Monday. Pakistain had earlier summoned the Afghan charge d'affaires over the dispute. |
| Posted by:Fred |