ISLAMABAD: India has been involved in carrying out terrorist activities in Pakistan using Afghan soil, Foreign Office said on Friday.
In the weekly media briefing, FO Spokesperson Nafees Zakaria said, “We want peace and stability in Afghanistan and our relations with Afghanistan are centuries old.”
“The efforts of Pakistan for restoring peace and stability in Afghanistan and strengthening bilateral relations would continue, he added.
Referring to today’s incident on the Chaman border, Zakaria said that Pakistan has serious concerns over the unprovoked firing on the census team on Chaman border.
“The border between Pakistan and Afghanistan is clearly demarcated and internationally recognized, adding, “Conducting census on our own side of the border is our sovereign right.”
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PAF on high-alert: 10 killed, 40 injured due to Afghan Border Police firing at Census team
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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:
