Afghanistan Defense Ministry front man Gen. Dawlat Waziri said Kabul was also pushing through diplomatic channels, including the UN and the US-led coalition force in Afghanistan, to halt the shelling.
"People’s houses have been destroyed, their livestock killed, and over 300 families have been displaced since Pakistain resumed the shelling, this shameless act, last week. Some people have been hurt and the shelling continues. We have instructed the frontier force to fire on any target that (fires) shells," Waziri told Arab News.
Pakistain has been repeatedly accused by locals and government officials of firing rockets at targets in Afghanistan over the past several years. This latest wave of attacks has taken place in several districts situated on the disputed border area of the Durand Line in eastern Kunar province
... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country.....
"People face a lot of difficulties in the extreme winter weather conditions, and the central government has not taken any action so far," Saleh Mohammed Saleh, an MP from Kunar, told Arab News.
He said the government is consumed by its internal divisions, adding that the focus of President Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..’s administration is on the parliamentary elections slated for next year and the 2019 presidential poll when he is expected to run for office again.