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| 27 Pakistani Missiles Fired Into Kunar After Trilateral Talks Begin |
| 2014-05-21 |
| [Tolo News] Pak military personnel on Monday fired at least 27 missiles across the border into Afghanistan, coming just as trilateral talks between top Afghan, Pak and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... leaders meet in Kabul to discuss border security. The Pak missiles were fired on the Sarkanoy District of eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... . "On Monday, the Pak military fired 27 missiles on Sarkanoy district of Kunar province, the attack destroyed four houses but there were no human casualties," Kunar Police Chief General Sayed Habib Khaili told TOLOnews. Direct hostilities between Afghanistan and Pakistain have heated up in recent years along the border the two countries share. The Durand Line, which divides the two South Asian nations, has been a point of contention for decades. The commander of international forces, General Joseph Dunford, the Afghan Army Chief, Sher Mohammad Karimi, and his Pak counterpart, were all recently gathered in Kabul to discuss the security situation along the border. Residents in Kunar and Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. provinces, which have suffered the brunt of the Pak aggressions, have criticized the Afghan government for not doing more to stop the attacks. "I want the government to not get fooled by Pakistain like this," Nangarhar Provincial Council member Zabiullah Ezmarai said. A number of politicians at Parliament in the capital have also shown concern about the attacks. The MPs accused the Afghan government of lacking the courage to take a firm stance against Pakistain. "Attacks on our eastern regions and the statement of the Pak National Security advisor clarify Pakistain's stance toward Afghanistan," the head of Parliament's Commission for Internal Affairs, Mir Dad Nejrabi, said. "Pakistain has always shown a willingness to cooperate with Afghanistan, but Pakistain has never desired for Afghan peole to live in peace," Second Senate Deputy Speaker Rafiullah Gul Afghan said. All of the politicians who spoke on the subject Tuesday seemed to agree that Pakistain was pursuing a duplicitous policy toward Afghanistan, treating it as an ally while also subverting it. "Pakistain still continues a double policy, meaning that the day Pak officials arrive in Afghanistan, the same day the Mighty Pak Army targets some region in kunar and along the border," Kabul MP Shukria Barakzai said. Nevertheless, Afghan Border Police officials in the area have expressed a resilient hope in the trilateral talks. They said they think issues with Pakistain can be overcome through diplomacy and negotiations. In recent weeks, some 43 missiles have been fired across the border into Kunar province, and over the past couple years, experts estimate that figure to be around 2,000 missiles. |
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