Military front man Major General Athar Abbas
... who is The Very Model of a Modern Major General...
said no rounds have been intentionally fired into Afghanistan. He said it is possible that a few rounds may have accidentally fallen into Afghanistan when security forces targeted bully boyz carrying out cross-border attacks into Pakistain.
The back-and-forth accusations have further strained the troubled relationship between the two countries. The Afghan government has repeatedly criticised Pakistain for not targeting Afghan Talibs who use its territory to launch cross-border attacks.
Pakistain has recently reversed this criticism, saying Afghan and NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants...
forces have not done enough to target Pak Talibs who have established sanctuaries in eastern Afghanistan and are using them to attack Pakistain.
The Afghan and Pak Taliban have close links but different goals. The Afghan Taliban is focused on fighting NATO and Afghan troops in Afghanistan. The Pak Taliban's main goal is toppling the US-allied Pak government.
Abbas claimed there have been five cross-border attacks in the last month against Pak border posts that have killed 55 paramilitary soldiers and tribal coppers and injured 80 others. The attacks took place in the tribal areas of Bajaur and
Mohmand... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Bloody Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar...
and in the settled area of Dir, he said.
"The fleeing bully boyz were engaged by the security forces, and a few accidental rounds going across (into Afghanistan) cannot be ruled out," Abbas said.
Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid
Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a
Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
on Sunday accused Pakistain of firing 470 rockets into the eastern provinces of 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...
and said "they should be stopped immediately."
And "if they are not being carried out by Pakistain, Pakistain should make it clear who is behind the attacks," he said in a statement issued by the presidential palace.
The Mighty Pak Army has said the recent cross-border attacks came from Kunar, an area where NATO has recently withdrawn many of its combat troops.
Karzai said he discussed the rocket barrage with President
Asif Ali President Ten PercentZardari
... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ...
during an anti-terrorism conference in Tehran on Saturday, the same day the Afghan Defence Ministry front man spoke of the attacks and warned that Afghanistan would defend itself.
"The government of Pakistain should understand that there will be a reaction for killing Afghan citizens," said front man Mohammad Zahir Azimi.
Saying it was in response to Pak fire, Afghan cops in the eastern provinces of Khost and Paktika
...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo...
launched artillery across the border at least twice on Friday, Azimi said.
Afghan security officials said NATO also fired into Pakistain on June 17. NATO and Pak military officials earlier denied any knowledge of such border fire from the Afghan side.
The Afghan president said he also discussed the border attack with Afghan NATO commander Gen. David Petraeus and US Ambassador Karl Eikenberry
...retired United States Army Lieutenant General currently serving as U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan...
during his regular national security council meeting on Sunday.
Afghan border police front man Edris Mohmand, who reported 36 Afghans killed by the rockets, including 12 children, said 2,000 families have decamped the Asmar and Nangalam districts of Kunar province
... which is right down the road from Chitral...
and the Goshta district in Nangarhar.
"All these attacks have been from Pakistain's side and for sure they are Pak weapons being used against innocent Afghans," Mohmand said. "The border police in the eastern region have been equipped with heavy artillery but we are waiting for orders from the interior minister."