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Spokesperson for the Afghan foreign ministry, Ahmad Shakib Mustaghni, told media in Kabul Pakistani envoy Muzam Ali was summoned on Monday in efforts to seek an “explanation about the rockets fired from Pakistan side” of the border.
“We conveyed our serious concerns and Pakistan was warned to immediately stop these attacks,” Mustaghni said at a briefing.
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This recent incident of cross-border shelling has occurred when the bilateral relationship between Afghanistan and Pakistan are at its lowest ebb.
According to Afghan authorities, "Pakistani shelling in Paktika province killed at least one border police man and injured three others."
On its part, Pakistan's foreign ministry had condemned the rocket shelling.
According to the statement, “Pakistan conveyed to Afghan government its deep concern over these increasing instances of cross-border shelling from Afghanistan.”
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“These instances are direct threat to the common objective of peaceful co-existence between the two neighbouring countries,” the statement added.
On November 15, five rockets were fired from Afghanistan at Angoor Adda checkpost in South Waziristan.
Meanwhile, ISPR spokesperson Lt General Asim Bajwa has urged Afghan authorities to implement ‘strict surveillance’ along the Pak-Afghan border to prevent terrorists from ‘escaping.’
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“We had preempted terrorists could flee to Afghanistan to avoid operation Zarb-e-Azb,” Bajwa told reporters in Washington on Sunday.
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