...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
province.
The Pakistain foreign ministry issued a statement saying that it had protested the killing of "five innocent people in firing by the Afghan border police".
"The Afghan Charge d' Affaires was summoned to the Foreign Office and a strong protest was lodged over the indiscriminate firing today (Wednesday) by the Afghan Border Police, which resulted in the killing of five innocent Paks," the statement said.
Pak officials said that shots were fired near the village of Godwana, in the Zhob district of Balochistan province, which also borders Iran.
Afghan forces fired in the Pak area in the morning, Zulfiqar Durrani, a senior administration official in Zhob, told Agence La Belle France Presse. "Their soldiers entered Pak territory to launch indiscriminate fire," he said.
Pakistain asked the Afghan government to launch an inquiry into the incident, saying it had conveyed "serious concern".
It also asked Afghanistan to "adhere to the border coordination and cooperation mechanisms, and prevent the recurrence of such incidents," the statement said.
The foreign ministry said that such incidents are "detrimental to the friendly relations and undermine goodwill between the two brotherly countries".
Pakistain and Afghanistan share a disputed, porous and unmarked 2,400-kilometer (1,500-mile) border, and have tricky diplomatic relations, accusing each other previously of cross border violations and sending gunnies to create unrest.
Pakistain has been a frontline in the U.S.-led war on terror in Afghanistan to eliminate al-Qaeda and Talibs from the war-torn country.
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There were conflicting claims, however, about whether the men were bully boyz or Pak cattle farmers.
| Simple but highly armed cowherds? I s'pose it's possible... |
...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo...
province, Daulat Khan Zadran, as saying that the men were Talibs killed in a confrontation with Afghan cops. Zadran said the bodies of three of the slain men were still in Afghanistan.