In a meeting with Pakistain Ambassador to Afghanistan Mohammad Sadiq on Monday, Afghan Deputy Foreign Minister Jawed Ludin expressed his concerns over what it called "Pak military's unilateral construction and physical reinforcement activities along the Durand Line."
According to the Afghan deputy foreign minister, the construction of the Pak military checkpost close to the Goshta district of Nangarhar
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province is "against all accepted international norms, provocative and unacceptable to the Afghan government."
"According to Afghan border police reports, these unilateral activities began a while ago along the Durand Line near the villages of Hatam Kalai and Kodzarai in Goshta district," said a blurb issued by the Afghan foreign ministry.
Pakistain, however, brushed aside Ludin's concerns, calling the construction work routine renovation on an old post.
"Pakistain has an old post called Gursal well inside Pak territory bordering Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan, which is under routine renovation," said Foreign Office front man Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry on Tuesday.
According to recently signed agreements, both countries are required to inform the other of any new construction closer to border areas.
"Despite being a renovation work Pakistain as a gesture of goodwill shared this information with the Afghan side. The same was also shared with the Afghan visiting delegation to
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on 24 January 2013," said a Pak foreign office blurb.
"Afghan Deputy Foreign Minister Jawed Ludin's recent concerns about construction and physical reinforcement along the Afghan border are therefore not in keeping with the spirit of the understanding on good border management and the recently signed Tripartite Border SOP," it added.