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FO rejects charges Pakistanis aided Taliban in Ghazni
[DAWN] The Foreign Office rejected on Thursday allegations that Pak citizens had supported the Taliban...the Pashtun equivalent of men... attack on Afghanistan’s city of Ghazni recently. "We have not received any evidence to back up these spurious accusations and reject these baseless allegations," FO front man Dr Muhammad Faisal said, rejecting allegations made by Afghan officials and others. Last Friday, some 1,000 Taliban fighters stormed the city of Ghazni and retreated five days later. Afghan defence minister Tariq Shah Bahrami had earlier this week said that Ghazni attack had been carried out by Taliban with the support of external elements, including Paks. Moreover, The New York Times  ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... had reported that Afghan officials had claimed the Taliban were aided by imported muscle, including Paks and Chechens, and even some Al Qaeda affiliates. The FO front man said that Pakistain was fencing the border with Afghanistan with the objective of restricting cross-border movement of both "men and material" as part of its counterterrorism efforts. He expressed the hope that the border fencing would help achieve long-term regional stability and improve relations between Afghanistan and Pakistain. Posted by: Fred 2018-08-18 |
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