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Pakistan faces disappointment on bilateral deals with the new regime in Afghanistan
[KhaamaPress] Recent events on the Afghanistan-Pakistain border make it clear that Pakistain’s decades old Afghanistan policy has failed. On 11 December 2022, Taliban...Arabic for students... forces in Afghanistan shelled a town just across the border in Pakistain, killing seven Pak civilians. Pakistain retaliated, killing one Taliban fighter and injuring ten Afghans. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif condemned the "unprovoked shelling" by Afghan forces. On 15 December, the two sides exchanged artillery fire across the border, killing at least one Pak civilian and wounding 15 others. Both countries are today on the verge of war! These developments signal a turn in ties between Pakistain and Afghanistan and signals Pakistain’s loss of control over the Afghan Taliban, which is today a government in power. "On the verge of war!"? Oh no! Anyway.... While the world’s attention is on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, violence in the border region between Pakistain and Afghanistan has gone unnoticed, even though the potential for a serious catastrophe persists and grows by the day. Pakistain summoned an Afghan diplomat over "unprovoked" artillery fire at their border. "Afghan Chargé d’Affaires in Islamabad was called to the foreign ministry and Pakistain’s strong condemnation was conveyed over recent incidents of unprovoked cross-border shelling resulting in a loss of life, injuries and damage to property," the Pak Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement, as Aljazeera quoted. The shootout Posted by: trailing wife 2022-12-29 |
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