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| Rocket attack from Afghanistan kills four soldiers: ISPR |
| 2015-08-24 |
| [DAWN] A cross border rocket attack at an army post near Pak-Afghan border in Khyber Agency left... the place to go if you've got an Indiana Jones hat and whip. Chock full of high adventure and treacherous Pathans. You should really train up to it, though... /> killed four soldiers and injured others, the military's media wing reported. According to the details, the Inter-Services Public Relations said that the rocket was fired by snuffies from Afghanistan on Sunday which resulted in the death of four military men and injured four others. "According to reports, rounds fired from (the) Afghanistan side by snuffies hit an 8,000-feet-high Pak post in Akhandwala Pass," the military said in a statement. "Four Pakistain army soldiers embraced martyrdom and four others were maimed due to the rocket fire. Pak troops befittingly responded and eliminated the group of terrorists," it added. This is not the first time that a cross border attack has happened on Pak-Afghan border. The attack comes at a time when relations between Islamabad and Afghanistan had started deteriorating in the wake of a surge in Taliban attacks inside Afghanistan and statements of the Afghan leadership against Pakistain. Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory the smoke and fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight... Pakistain lodged strong protest with Afghanistan over the rocket attack from Afghan side. "A strong protest was lodged with Afghanistan's Ambassador Jannan Mosazai and he was told that Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the Worldand didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... must take urgent steps to stop such attacks from its territory," Foreign Office sources said. |
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