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| Pakistan Building Up Military Check-Posts in Kunar: Governor |
| 2013-05-05 |
| [TOLONEWS] The Pak military has started building up check posts in Narai district of eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... , provincial governor said Saturday. An Afghan delegation's investigations show that the Pakistain military have entered about 300 meters in Narai district of the province and started building military check-posts, the provincial governor Sayed Fazlullah Wahidi told TOLOnews. "We have decided and ordered our military forces to stop them and push them back to their areas," Wahidi said. He said the people informed authorities about the building up of the new military check-posts in Narai district and that they had also seen helicopters bringing equipment. "We sent a delegation led by the provincial police chief in the area. Their investigation says that Pak military have entered about 300 meters and built a military check-post," he said. It comes as, the Afghan officials have warned that if Pakistain's military violation continues in the border area, Afghan cops will strongly react against them. The Afghan border military officials claimed to have killed at least seven Pak soldiers in the clash which took place between Afghan and Pakistain Border Forces late Wednesday night in Goshta district of eastern 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.. province. One Afghan border police was killed and three others maimed, officials added. Afghanistan has the longest border with Pakistain and this border has always been full of risk for the security of the country. Alongside terrorists' infiltration from Pakistain into Afghanistan, Pakistain's military have also been problematic for Afghanistan. The exchange is the latest incident in a series of cross-border attacks, which Afghan and Pakistain authorities have traded blame for initiating. |
| Posted by:Fred |