... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun...says negotiations are underway with the Pak officials to prevent further escalation along the Durand Line.
Talking to news hounds in Kabul on Tuesday, Abdullah said the recent clash in Zazai Maidan district of Khost took place due to the violations of the line by the Pak forces.
However,
there's more than one way to stuff a chicken...
Abdullah said negotiations are underway on military and diplomatic level to prevent the repeat of such incidents in the future.
Abdullah further added that the dead bodies of the Pak troops were handed over to the authorities in Pakistain.
The Pak military had earlier claimed that the Frontier corps soldiers were killed after coming under fire from the other side of the Durand Line.
"FC KP troops fired upon from Afghanistan side in Kurram agency. Troops were carrying out routine surveillance along Pak Afghan border for plugging of gaps and making necessary preparations for starting fencing in that area," the Pak military said in a statement.
However,
there's more than one way to stuff a chicken...
the Afghan officials are claiming that the clash broke out after Pak troops attempted to intrude into the Afghan soil.
The provincial government media office of Khost in a statement said the Pak militia forces launched attacks on security posts in Jando Sar and Bad Khawaran areas of Zazai Maidan district at around 8 am on Sunday.
In the meantime, local media outlets in Pakistain report that the tribal elders of Khost province
... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name...
of Afghanistan and
Kurram Agency...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora...
will meet on Sunday to hold talks regarding the recent incident.