FO slams use of Afghan soil by terrorists against Pakistan

Spokesperson calls upon Afghan government to take immediate action against terrorists and terrorist groups

ISLAMABAD:

The Foreign Office (FO) strongly condemned on Thursday the use of Afghan soil by terrorists for activities against Pakistan.

In a statement, FO Spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri called upon the Afghan government to take immediate action against terrorists and terrorist groups finding sanctuaries in Afghanistan to target Pakistani security forces.

A day earlier, on January 6, a Frontier Corps (FC) soldier embraced martyrdom when terrorists from inside Afghanistan fired across the international border at a military checkpost in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Mohmand district, the military said.

According to the military's media wing, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), 25-year-old Sepoy Fazal Wahid, a resident of Shangla in Swat valley, sustained bullet injuries during the exchange of fire and succumbed to his wounds later on.

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The Pakistani troops responded promptly to the attack, the ISPR maintained.

Pakistan has consistently been raising the issue of effective border management with the Afghan authorities on their side of the border to check cross-border terrorist incidents.

In November last year, another FC soldier embraced martyrdom while two others sustained injuries when terrorists attacked a security checkpost along the Pak-Afghan border in Balochistan’s Zhob district.

Naik Fakhr Abbas, 22, was martyred and two other FC soldiers injured in the ambush, the ISPR said in a statement.

In another checkpost attack in October, a soldier was martyred and another was injured in the Bajaur sector.

Terrorists fired from across the border on a Pakistan Army post along the Pak- Afghan Border in Bajaur, the military’s media wing tweeted. “Resultantly, Havaldar Tanveer embraced Shahadat while one soldier got injured,” it further said.