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| India-Pakistan |
| Pakistan says Afghans provoked border clash |
| 2007-04-21 |
| Pakistan said on Friday its troops had exchanged fire with an Afghan patrol a day earlier, but contradicted Kabul’s account that Afghan troops were tearing down a fence Pakistan had put up on the disputed frontier. The Pakistan military accused an Afghan patrol of opening fire without provocation on one of its border posts. “Our forces retaliated and they ran away. There were no casualties,” military spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad said. The Afghan Interior Ministry said on Thursday the gunbattle erupted after Pakistani troops opened fire on Afghan forces as they were removing a fence and mines laid by Pakistan. Arshad denied Pakistani forces were fencing and mining the area. “There was neither any fence there, nor did they tear one down. Nobody entered into Pakistani territory,” he said. The clash happened on the border between Pakistan’s South Waziristan tribal region and the Bermal district of Afghanistan’s eastern province of Paktika. |
| Posted by:Fred |