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Afghans: Artillery from Pakistan kills four civilians
[Dawn] Afghan officials said Sunday that hundreds of shells and rockets have been fired into Afghanistan from neighboring Pakistain, hitting homes and killing four civilians along frontier areas from which bully boyz have in the past staged cross-border attacks.The Afghan government has not yet openly blamed the Pak military for the artillery barrage, which reportedly hit districts in the eastern provinces of Nuristan and Kunar. In the latest reported cross-border violation, nearly 400 rockets and shells were fired into Afghanistan on Saturday and killed at least four people in Dangam district along the border, according to Kunar provincial police chief Gen. Ewaz Mohammad Naziri. He said those attacks and others in nearby Nuristan had led hundreds of families to flee the area. There is little or no Afghan or NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... military presence in the area and large swaths of the region are controlled by beturbanned goon groups. The information could not be independently verified because the area is largely off-limits to news hounds. Kabul's Foreign Ministry front man Janan Mosazai said, "The rocket attacks in the eastern provinces of Afghanistan are not acceptable to us and we are strongly condemning these attacks.We believe that the continuation of such rocket attacks will have a negative impact on the friendly relations between Afghanistan and Pakistain." President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... discussed the issue of artillery fire coming from Pakistain at a weekly meeting of his national security council, a statement said. It added that Karzai ordered an in-depth investigation into the attacks. The issue of cross-border attacks was discussed in Kabul last week during an official visit by Pakistain's new Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf and British Prime Minister  David Cameron... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite,which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideologicalhe lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger,but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... Ashraf openly complained at a news conference about attacks against Pakistain originating in Kunar. Last week, Pakistain said dozens of snuffies from Afghanistan's Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... attacked a village near Pakistain's northwest Bajur tribal area and appeared to be targeting members of a militia fighting Pak Taliban. Local Pak officials said 15 snuffies and two anti-Taliban hard boyz were killed. Posted by: Fred 2012-07-23 |
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