M. M. ALAM
ISLAMABAD: Following hotline conversation that took place between Pakistan and Afghanistan DGMOs the exchange of firing stopped at Pak-Chaman border.
According to Pak Army sources Afghan DGMO has admitted that they had made a mistake in identifying the boundary: “Afghan director general, military operations, acknowledged that border is in between villages and not at the ditch… as being perceived by them”.
Meanwhile, 19 trucks sent by PDMA loaded with foodstuff, tents and medicines worth four crore rupees have reached Chaman.
PDMA has estimated that over 2000 families living in the border villages were affected.
Despite ceasefire the Pak Afghan Friendship Gate remains closed for the second day.
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PAF on high-alert: 11 killed, 42 injured due to Afghan Border Police firing at Census team
M. M. ALAM
CHAMAN: Afghan Border Police has killed ten and injured 40 Pakistanis today by means of a cross-border firing targeting the villages of Kali Luqman and Kali Jahangir here.
Due to scarcity of ambulances rescuers are finding it difficult to transport the injured to medical facilities.
Schools of the area and International border-crossing (Bab-e-Dosti) between Kandahar to Chaman have been closed.
Sources privy to NewsPakistan.tv have informed that Afghan forces have resorted to use rooftops of the civilians’ mud-houses to fire towards bordering villages of Chaman.
NewsPakistan.tv has duly learnt that inhabitants of the affected villages have evacuated the area to escape the shells and bullets.
As soon as the firing commenced large contingents of FC and Levies reached villages under attack and retaliated to the heavy artillery shelling.
Those killed and injured include civilians (men, women and children) as well as Frontier Corps (FC) personnel who were deployed to provide security to the official team conducting census on villages at the border.
It is pertinent to mention here that Afghan authorities were informed well in advance about the activity vis-à-vis census yet they resorted to cross-border firing.
The process of census has been stopped in the two villages following the firing.
ISPR’s early morning tweet:
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