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has said regular army and FC have been sent to border areas with Afghanistan to stop beturbanned goons' attacks.
Talking to Radio Pakistain, he said Pakistain will not allow beturbanned goons to carry out attacks on our check-posts, border villages and kill our civilians.
The DG ISPR said about 100 personnel of police; levies and paramilitary forces have so far been martyred in beturbanned goons' attacks from across the border during last 3-4 months.
ISAF was informed about these attacks, besides pointing out the location of hideouts of beturbanned goons, but no action has so far been taken which may prove that safe havens and bunkers have been destroyed or beturbanned goons have decamped from there, he added.
He said apparently it seems that there is no presence of Afghan army or ISAF in the vast area from where beturbanned goons are operating against Pakistain, about 37 security personnel were martyred in Chitral attack, which was first such attack and is a matter of great concern for us.
Replying to a question, he said there is a report that the beturbanned goons have attacked in Bajaur, but no casualty has so far been reported.
He said Dir is the most affected area of beturbanned goons' attacks and terrorist group decamped from Swat
...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat...is involved in these attacks so that they can come to Swat via Dir. We strengthened all border check-posts and increased their numbers in Dir.
He said beturbanned goons have safe havens in Kunar, Nuristan and Nangarhar
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and there are no security forces in most of these areas of Afghanistan.
It seems the beturbanned goons are being supported locally and operating freely, he added.
He said Pakistain cannot launch operation across the border.
He said Pakistain took up the issue with the Afghan Army personnel and ISAF, but we did not see any effective operation in that area.