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Pakistan resumes shelling in Kandahar, Kunar provinces of Afghanistan
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Pak military has resumed artillery shelling in southern Kandahar and eastern Kunar province... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... s of Afghanistan as Afghanistan summons the country’s ambassador to lodge a protest over indiscriminate shelling. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan (MoFA) said the Pak Ambassador to Afghanistan Syed Abrar Hussain was summoned over the recent artillery shelling from the side of Durand Line by Pak military and militia forces over Maruf district of Kandahar and Sarkanu district of Kunar. MoFA further added that a formal protest was lodged over the shelling with the head of the first political department Musfa Arifi warning that the shelling in such a sensitive time when the relations between the two countries has been witnessing an all time low, could prove provocative and further ignite tensions. The indiscriminate shelling by Pak military stopped with the formation of the new Afghan government, National Unity Government, led by President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani  ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... in late 2014. The Pak military continued to fire artillery shells in eastern provinces that caused heavy casualties and losses to the local residents of the eastern provinces. Although the Pak officials rejected shelling the Afghan soil however on some occasions they admitted that the shelling were done to respond to bully boyz activities along the Durand Line. This comes as the Afghan and Pak border forces have engaged in deadly festivities along the Durand Line during the past several months, mainly due to irresponsible movements by Pak border forces along the line, as claimed by the Afghan officials. Posted by: Fred 2016-12-23 |
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