Pakistani missile kills Kunar child

[Haris]

Pakistani missile kills Kunar child



ASADABAD (PAN): A child was killed after Pakistani army fired 50 missiles at
the Narai district in the eastern Kunar province, officials said on Tuesday.

Pakistan fired 50 missiles on Sunday and Monday nights in the Batash area
of the district, causing heavy losses and displacing people, the governor’s
spokesman, Wasifullah Wasifi told Pajhwok Afghan News.

A child was also killed in the missile attack, he said.

The central government, trilateral committee and Ministry of Foreign Affairs
had been informed about the incident and we would like the matter to be
solved through dialogue, he said.

A local resident, Najibullah, said Pakistani army fired missiles on the
bordering district over the past one month and it had created lot of
hardship for the people.

“We want the government to talk with Pakistani government or let the
people decide about the defence of their area,” he said.


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[Nazar]

Irritated cat scratches the poll. Pakis did it in retaliation to the deaths of their seventeen comrades on Sunday.

[Admin Khan]

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ISLAMABAD: Taliban militants on Wednesday released a video showing severed heads of 17 Pakistani soldiers who they claimed to have killed in a cross-border attack on a check post in Pakistan.

The beheading, claimed by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, took place on Sunday when Taliban militants from Afghanistan infiltrated into the northwestern district of Upper Dir.

A senior security official in the northwestern regional capital Peshawar on Wednesday confirmed to AFP that a total of 17 soldiers were targeted by the attackers who came from the eastern Afghan province of Kunar.

“Six troops were killed on the first day, then another seven were slaughtered the next day,” the official said.

“Four were missing and now they have also been beheaded,” he said.

Dir, a key border transit route, neighbours Swat valley where Pakistan defeated a local Taliban insurgency in 2009.

Intelligence officials blamed the attack on loyalists of Pakistani cleric Maulana Fazlullah, who fled to Afghanistan after losing control of Swat to the army.

The video prepared by the Taliban’s media wing shows 17 severed heads of soldiers placed on a white sheet while masked men stand behind clutching assault rifles captured from the soldiers.

Local security officials confirmed that all the victims were Pakistani soldiers.

“God has given us a great victory, we have killed them all. Four of the heads you can see are from Frontier Corps (paramilitary force), the rest are from the army,” an unseen commentator said in the video.

The army said more than 100 militants “from a safe haven across the border” attacked troops on patrol. It claimed to have killed 14 militants.

The army “has strongly protested with their counterparts across the border for not taking action against miscreants present in safe havens in Afghanistan”, a military official said.

The foreign ministry summoned the deputy head of the Afghan mission to lodge a formal protest against “the intrusion of militants from the Afghan side into Pakistani territory”, officials said.

The Afghan diplomat was informed that “the government of Afghanistan should take appropriate measures to prevent the recurrence of similar incidents in the future”, it said.

Pakistani troops have for years been fighting local Taliban but have resisted US pressure to carry out a sweeping offensive against Afghan Taliban fighters in its North Waziristan tribal area.

Afghanistan and Pakistan have long blamed each other for Taliban violence plaguing both sides of their porous, mountainous border.

Pakistan says rebels have regrouped in eastern Afghanistan. Afghan and US officials want Pakistan to eliminate Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked havens used to launch attacks in Afghanistan. -- AFP


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[ComradePashtun]

The Afghan govt. is pathetic for not thwarting the Paki aggression in offensive manner and teaching them a lesson.

[pashtun_rise]

The Afghan govt. is pathetic for not thwarting the Paki aggression in offensive manner and teaching them a lesson.

Afghan govt is in the clutches of US...its kinda spy vs spy game too besides hidden attacks across the borders.

[Haris]

Kabul protests missile attacks from Pakistan





ISLAMABAD (PAN): Afghan ambassador to Pakistan on Thursday lodged a strong
protest with the Pakistani foreign ministry in Islamabad over recent cross border
missile attacks into the eastern Afghan province of Kunar.


Up to 50 missiles were fired into Dangam district of Kunar from across the border in
Pakistan, injuring two people and damaging properties, Kunar governor’s spokesman
Wasifullah Wasifi told Pajhwok on Wednesday.


Afghan envoy to Pakistan Mohammad Omar Daudzai lodged a protest to Pakistani
Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar over the cross border assaults.


The Afghan embassy said Duadzai had lodged a strong protest over the cross border
attacks from the Pakistani territory that had created great panic among Afghans living
in the border region, and urged Islamabad to urgently step in to stop the incursions.


Daudzai told Khar the attacks would benefit terrorists and create misunderstanding
between the two nations.


In a statement, the embassy said that Khar and Daudzai discussed various issues
concerning the two countries, including Pakistan’s newly-appointed Prime Minister Raja
Pervaiz Asharaf’s upcoming visit to Afghanistan, hoping the visit would help resolve
issues between the two neighbouring countries and improving relations.


Three days ago, President Hamid Karzai telephoned the new Pakistani premier and
invited him to visit Kabul after congratulating him on assuming the office. The Pakistani
leader agreed to Karzai’s invitation.


The statement said the Afghan envoy also discussed with the Pakistani foreign
minister issues facing Afghan refugees in the country and asked her to ensure
mistreatment of Afghans by police and other authorities need to stop.


Daudzai said the two countries were working on a joint plan about refugees because
Kabul wanted an honourable and organised return of Afghans to their homeland.


He also called for the release of stranded trucks carrying textbooks for Afghan
students in the port city of Karachi.


Khar complained about recent rebel attacks on Pakistani troops in the Dir district of
northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Reports said the militants had crossed
the border into Pakistan's Dir district from Kunar province.


She said 17 Pakistani soldiers were killed in the attacks and asked the Afghan
government to take urgent steps to prevent such attacks in the future.


On problems facing Afghan refugees in Pakistan, Khar said she would issue directives
to the officials to stop undue harassment of Afghans.


She also said the issue of textbooks had been resolved and the authorities in Karachi
had been directed to clear the 77 containers soon.




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