Cross-border: Shelling, rocket attack kills 4 in Afghanistan
According to the AP report, Afghan officials said that a few homes were hit during the attack in Dangam district along the border.
However, the neighbouring government has not yet blamed Pakistan’s military for the incident.
AP quoted Kunar provincial police chief General Ewaz Mohammad Naziri as saying that these attacks in nearby Nuristan had forced hundreds of families to flee the area.
Earlier, 13 Pakistani troops were killed on June 25 when Taliban insurgents crossed over from Afghanistan and mounted a deadly ambush on a patrol of Pakistani security forces.
Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf had said that the cross-border attacks by militants were high on the agenda during his visit to Afghanistan.
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@Maria: . Ahmad Shah Durrani (c. 1722–1773) (Pashto/Persian: احمد شاه درانی), also known as Ahmad Shāh Abdālī (Pashto/Persian: احمد شاه ابدالي) and born as Ahmad Khān, was the founder of the Durrani Empire (Afghan Empire) in 1747 and is regarded by many to be the founder of the modern state of Afghanistan. . Birthplace: Herat, Afghanistan Place of death: Kandahar Province, Afghanistan . link text
@Afrasiab
Your righteous indignation will fall on deaf ears because the powers that be are simply not interested in peace because there is no money in peace. The status quo must be maintained at all costs to keep the billions of dollars flowing.
People naively get emotional and patriotic and huff and puff at each other on this forum, meanwhile the rulers are all in cahoots and are laughing all the way to the bank.
@Arian: Did someone forget to tell you that Ahmad Shah Abdalli is born in Multan Pakistan? Read it up at Encyclopedia Brittanica. As for Pashtuns supporting Pakistan, you need to read up on prominent Pashtuns who supported it and the vote in favour of Pakistan - Pashtuns were not and are not opposed to Pakistan but non Pashtun Afghanis such as Tajiks and Hazara and Uzbeks are opposed to Afghanistan and want to make Khorasan.
@Basit "Afghan operating radar guided artillery? They can barely handle guns and routinely turn it against their American masters".
Your FCR does not fare any better, my friend. They could not handle a bunch of rag tag TTP elements. I will not highlight the incident here because I am a Muslim and cherish the life of every Muslim, even if they are sworn enemies but I am sure you know the incident I am referring to.
@Nashai
For your information the Pashtuns of Afghanistan and its founder Ahmad Shah Abdali ruled all of Pakistan and parts of India.The founder of Pakisan was Jinnah not Pashtuns, as a matter of fact Pashtuns were opposed to it. Read up on real history not fiction.
@Mangal: keep dreaming, pashtuns belong to Pakistan they are founder of pakistan. Afghanistan is belong to Uzbekistan and Tajikistan
I think fence is a best solution , afghans getting lot of free ride and using pakistan resources (thanks to Mr Zia). And in return they give pakistan drugs , guns and all terrorism.
If pak doing this to retaliate for cross border attacks by taliban then afg should also have the right do do the same. So if pak killed 4 today, it is afg right to kill at 4000 because in the last ten years there have been 1000s attack from pak supporzed talib from across the border.
Instead of gifting their brotherly neighbouring country with barrages of blindly fired rockets pakistan should first help its owm people. Why r we spending so much on foreigners whilst we have enough poor people to take care of? 300 rockets fired! That money cud have been used to feed 300 families for the whole of Ramadan. Seriously what will we do when we have no rockets left anymore? Beg again? I think we should show some respect to our neihbours and stop being so two faced. Our pm was claiming pak wants peace in afg and the next day we kill 4 people! We should help to bring peace and we should stop supporting murderous terrorists because we hate the same sort of people to run our country.
@Cautious: Afghan operating radar guided artillery? They can barely handle guns and routinely turn it against their American masters.
@Mangal: Your Karzai barely controls Kabul. First worry about that.
There needs to be even more cross border shelling. We need to create a buffer zone near the Dir border as it is otherwise used by TTP. ISAF/NATO/ANA is unable to police this area and using the same logic as used for drone attacks, artillery strikes are legitimate as they deny safe haven to TTP to launch cross border attacks.
Pakistan should fence and mine the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan to prvent the influx of people from Afghanistan into Pakistan.
This is bound to happen when your guests there come here and behead people.
The killing of innocent civilians must be condemned wherever it happens. You can't penalize vulnerable civilians for the policies and all wrong doings of their governments. The militants from Pakistan have been crossing the border and attacking inside Afghanistan for decades, yet we have never fired rockets at the villages inside Pakistani territories. It simply shows the amateur frustration of Pakistani military over the fact that the very "buddies" they fed, have now turned against them.
Inside Afghanistan, the anti-Pakistan circles are taking these incidents to their account and are busy in convincing the masses that Afghans have an even bigger enemy next door. I can tell you that the anti-Pakistan sensations are now taking over the anti-American sensations in Afghanistan. That day is just about to come when the level of patriotism among Afghans will be gauged by how severely they hate Pakistan (just like your obsession with anti-India sentiments).
All those who are in favor of building a wall/fence with Pak-Afghan border, I would ask you to first leave your cosy houses and come serve in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Once you give your sweat and blood to this land, and serve its peoplee, you can have a say in whether the fencing should be made. If not, just zip it and stop interfering in our side of the border.
How can we Afghans let a fence divide my land and my people? Pashtunistan aka Pakhtunkhwa is Afghanistan's land and we won't let it go by any price! Plz keep your recommendations for your self Mr. Stenson, Thank you!
Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf had said that the cross-border attacks by militants were high on the agenda during his visit to Afghanistan.
Everything is always "High on the Agenda" but sadly nothing seems to be ever done ! This is the real story of Pakistan ! It always remains an Agenda and nothing else !
Pakistan offered to fence & mine the border area to prevent infiltrators ( from our brother country Afghanistan) but Afghanistan objected to it and threatened to take Pakistan to security council , saying that it will divide families living on the both sides of the border !!!!
@Cautious: In India, you have been terrorizing the people since the British left the region. Perhaps you need to focus on your own issues with hurting innocent people beofre worrying about the volatile border area between Pakistan and Afghanistan. The border between Pakistan and Afghanistan should be fenced and mined to stop movement of people.
Pakistan must make everybody clear that any cross border misadventure would result into something bigger than they could have imagined.
So what do you accomplish by blindly firing artillery/rockets across the border? No doubt you didn't kill any bad guys and have tarnished your already "thin" argument about how other countries should honor your sovereignty. Worse yet -- the Afghans might return the favor and use some that military aid to purchase American made 155mm radar guided artillery which I suspect is both accurate and lethal.