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PARACHINAR: Afghan officials handed over the bodies of five martyred personnel of the Frontier Corps as well as an injured soldier to the elders of Kurram Agency on Monday as talks continued between the two sides to deescalate tension along the border.
According to reports, 10 attackers from the Afghan side were also killed in clashes that erupted in the area after the FC men erecting a fence along the border at Laka Tiga post in Lower Kurram Agency came under fire.
MNA Sajid Hussain Turi, who is leading a delegation of local tribes holding talks with the elders of Zazi tribe of Afghanistan, confirmed the death toll and said that 12 more personnel of the FC were wounded in the clashes with Afghan forces. They were taken to a hospital in Thall Garrison.
Military officials of Pakistan and Afghanistan held a flag meeting at a location near the border to hold ceasefire. According to local officials, the armed tribesmen who took position along the border to provide backup support to Pakistani troops were called back after the flag meeting between field commanders of the two countries.
Hundreds of tribesmen carrying heavy weapons had rushed to the Laka Tiga post and adjacent areas on Sunday to support the FC soldiers who came under attack from the Afghan side. Heavy exchange of fire took place in the area. Armed tribesmen from the Afghan side also supported their border forces.
Sources said that after the flag meeting the elders of Turi and Zazi tribes — said to be cousins — held a jirga to defuse the tension escalated after the border clashes. Political Agent Baseer Khan also attended the jirga held near Mali Khel village on the Kurram side.
According to the sources, the Afghan officials asked their Pakistani counterparts to erect fence five metres inside the demarcation line.
It is worth mentioning that the borderline on the Kurram side is properly demarcated and both countries have no dispute.
Under a multi-billion-rupee border management plan, Pakistan began fencing the border on its side last year. The plan aims at preventing unlawful cross-border movement.
The Afghan government has reservations over the fencing plan.
Published in Dawn, April 17th, 2018
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Apr 17, 2018 07:48am
It seems PM Abbasi was just in Kabul in front of TV news cameras, making nice with PM Ghani and telling Pakistanis "there will be peace in our time." Peace will take longer than a two day visit to Afghanistan.
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Apr 17, 2018 07:58am
Response to these tactics must be very strong and lesson for any future escalations in history.
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Apr 17, 2018 08:26am
It seems Pakistan soldiers crossed the border for a raid. Lost 5 braves in counter attack.
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Apr 17, 2018 08:27am
Kabul should be given a clear signal by expediting sending back the refugees. The supplies to Afghanistan through our border should be stopped. No diplomacy is going to work with people who are bent upon mischief.
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Apr 17, 2018 08:36am
Very interesting. We demarcate land that was shared for centuries and expect no blowback? As Pakhtoon , it is just a travesty of geography that brothers are being divided, do we really think this will last three test of time?
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Apr 17, 2018 08:36am
Why are we not angry and give a stronger response to Afghanistan which they would remember before trying again.....why lives 0f our soldiers so cheap....in the eyes of our political leadership.
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Apr 17, 2018 08:39am
what a sad state of affair both sides are brother in blood and in faith!
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Apr 17, 2018 08:42am
Afghan taliban should kick out usa from afghanistan
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Apr 17, 2018 08:46am
Pak should show some spine and give them a befitting reply
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Apr 17, 2018 09:00am
Afghans are happy trigger and fire at Pakistanis soldiers anytime they want to. They must be taught a lesson once for all.
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Apr 17, 2018 09:01am
This will happen again and again because one side does not recognise the international border between us. That is the whole problem.
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Apr 17, 2018 09:05am
Afghans do not recognize the Durand Line, and consider it to be the disgraceful manifestation of the British colonialism.
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Apr 17, 2018 09:10am
These Afghans are a piece of work.
Millions of them live and stay here in Pakistan and they still attack us.
Well done to the Pakistani tribesmen for supporting their Pakistan Army
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Apr 17, 2018 09:19am
Never feed the snake.
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Apr 17, 2018 09:24am
Send refugees back to Afghanistan
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Apr 17, 2018 09:34am
How come the Pakistani body inside Afghan territory?
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Apr 17, 2018 09:39am
@Talha ,What has the US got to do with this blatant act of aggression (?) by the Afghans who continue their delusional obsession that the internationally recognised Durand Line is not the true border between the two countries and that all the land up to and west of the Indus is Afghan. Until minds such as yours grapple with this instead of blaming everything on the US, you not only fail to understand where the problem lines but confront the real culprits.
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Apr 17, 2018 09:49am
So now we have to hold flag meetings with people who’s millions are we entertaining for the past 4 decades?
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Apr 17, 2018 09:58am
i think FC should learn lesson when they do some serious job they should have positioned more personnel and equipment to response immediately because our enemy have no uniform specially when international proxies involved in this game.
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Apr 17, 2018 09:59am
Give a befitting reply to the puppets of America and India.
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Apr 17, 2018 10:13am
.........and still Pakistan is hosting millions of Afghan refugees for no good reasons. Build refugees camps on Afghanistan side of the border and move these refugees to Afghanistan side and seal the border for good.
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Apr 17, 2018 10:14am
Learn from Turkey and create a buffer zone within Afghanistan. Pakistan is having a serious image problem which says: "This is a country anyone can target".
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Apr 17, 2018 10:15am
kick all afgans out
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Apr 17, 2018 10:23am
I'm sad as Afghan family will suffer in response of Afghan govt specially when Afghan govt brags about killing Pak soldiers. Afghanistan already lost many people in retaliation from Pak military.
It's sad for me to say that but I can say this with a conviction that Pak military will retaliate at the appropriate time and will take revenge again. Pakistan has many weakness but military is not one of them.
PakAfghan brotherhood zindabad!
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Apr 17, 2018 10:29am
Concentrate on India side border.
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Apr 17, 2018 10:31am
Our enemies have injected and polluitize afghan blood with hate for Pakistan. This fence is necesaary. We need full protectio . they afghan want to keep open for our enemies to weak Pakistan. We have to realise Afghans never respected Pakistan since Pakistan creation.
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Apr 17, 2018 10:36am
Its our big faliure that our army personnel is consistantly being killed for last 17 years on Pak- afg border. We leave our soldiers dying their without enough heavy gunship weapons.
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Apr 17, 2018 10:43am
Just aim a missile at Ashraf Ghani home who is the Indian ambassador to Kabul. Problem solved.
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Apr 17, 2018 10:55am
Its really a tragic incident and Pak army should strongly take revenge of such attach. How Pakistani authorities claim that 10 attackers were killed? We got back our dead bodies through dialogue so shame on us for such dialogue. If we are sending our children to be martyred by enemies then no need to send them if we can't protect them. Pakistan should launch proper attack on the post on the opposite side of the border so that they should have a clear message that we will also be bombed. Even our major got martyred on Torkham border by firing from Afghan side and later we only claim that that much attackers have been killed. Confirmed deaths are on our side and we shouldn't only weep.
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Apr 17, 2018 10:59am
Why we’re showing so much restraint towards afghanistan is just beyond my Imagination hopefully we’ll have a army cheif like Musa khan and Ayub khan who taught Afghanis forces a great lessons when the afghan did the same back in 1950s and 60s
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Apr 17, 2018 10:59am
Feeling very sad, If peace cannot be maintained in peace times, they should fence off the borders to avoid spilling innocent human blood.
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Apr 17, 2018 11:01am
Tribesman with heavy weapons - pathetic that anyone apart from the army is allowed to hold these weapons . Today they rushed to help the F.C. who can say if tomorrow they rush to attack the Pak army with same heavy weapons
The only military force should be the Pak army - everyone else needs to have weapons confiscated
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Apr 17, 2018 11:03am
We should immediately stop all the food and fuel supplies crossing the border but our influential contractors are not willing to take any financial loss, lives of few soldiers is immaterial. A week of border closure is enough for correcting all the ailments of Afghan govt. Behaviour of our top lot remains suspicious as always.
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Apr 17, 2018 11:05am
Bullets coming from Iran, India and Afghanistan. Pakistan seems to have disputes with all its neighbours
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Apr 17, 2018 11:05am
Afghanistan returned the bodies. That means Pakistanis crossed the border and entered in to Afghanistan.
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Apr 17, 2018 11:11am
When afghanistan did the same thing back in 1948, 1950s and 1960s the response from Pakistan was brutal even PAF was called to punish Afghan forces It only happened because than our army was under generals with spine like Musa khan and Ayub khan
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Apr 17, 2018 11:20am
We should realize that Afghanistan govt has no control over majority of the country and the meeting with Afghan president will have no impact on this. Those simplistic Pakistani thinking the Durand line divides pushtoon brotherhood should visit Afghanistan and realize their treatments with the "brothers" Pukhtoons before speaking such non sense. The fact remains that the porous border has lead to infiltration of terrorists and it should have been sealed yesterday. Any military agressiveness from the other side should be dealth with all our might so its not repeated again.
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Apr 17, 2018 11:33am
this has happened many times while fencing and resulting in loss of FC men. It would make lot of sense that the two sides first meet and agree before start of fencing in an area to avoid any misunderstanding or disputes.
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Apr 17, 2018 11:41am
tribesmen heavly armed rushed to the scene says it all
military dependant on them , what if they turn against the state someday? no civilian should be heavly armed
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Apr 17, 2018 11:46am
This is very shameful by Afgahnistan.
Koddos to Pak army n tribesmen for strong response.
Pak must build this fence asap n on international border..not wut Afghanistan is sayin. Not even a single inch of our pure land will be given to them
Pak Zindabad
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Apr 17, 2018 11:50am
Pak soldiers should not think wheather to attack Afghan millitants/soldiers or not. They should immediately start killing them.
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Apr 17, 2018 11:59am
5 of our soldiers have lost their lives on our side of the border and we have done nothing other than to participate in some stupid prehistoric time jirga! What is the army waiting for? Pak Air Force should be brought in to clean up the area
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Apr 17, 2018 12:00pm
@Ahmed Refugees are not livestocks that can be traded at anyone's will. They are spill over of your war and you get paid for taking care of them. The word Refugees should stand with humanity, not hatred.
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Apr 17, 2018 12:03pm
It isn’t Afghanistan’s place to demand we place our fence five metres away from our border.
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Apr 17, 2018 12:05pm
@riz1
This is about the Afghan government demanding the border fence be placed at a certain distance - not an uprising of local tribesmen. In fact, local tribesmen fought alongside Pakistani forces in this clash.
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Apr 17, 2018 12:26pm
When Afghans simultaneously talk about cross border attacks emanating from Pakistan and do not want a fence on the border - it only means they are not being honest ! Graveyard of superpowers at the end of the day is a graveyard. We need to complete the fence a.s.a.p., push the Afghan immigrants back into their country and forget about them.
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Apr 17, 2018 01:12pm
Is this the same Afghanistan whose millions of immigrants have been provided with shelter by Pakistan?
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Apr 17, 2018 01:28pm
Unfortunately, 50% of afghan land are not in afghan forces control and they have issues on 5 meters. Though the fence are correctly placed but still they have possession issues. The best solution for the dispute is to handle the matter with sensible approach. Others will only put oil to the fire and watch from back doors and enjoy fghting of Pak and afghans.
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Apr 17, 2018 02:24pm
What were Pakistani soliders doing in Afghan territory?
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Apr 17, 2018 02:27pm
The countries at the western front are starting to act as part of Indian plan. India should be taught a lesson.
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Apr 17, 2018 02:52pm
@Hwh - A million Dollar Question !
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Apr 17, 2018 02:52pm
@A shah ...even more important to have a good defence, especially a good airforce and navy with deterrence capabilities.
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Apr 17, 2018 02:57pm
@A shah - A serious issue needs to be given proper thought.
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Apr 17, 2018 03:02pm
@Khan - The how come Pakistani soldiers' bodies were found inside Afghanistan ?
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Apr 17, 2018 03:25pm
Time to hit back!!!
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Apr 17, 2018 03:32pm
This is the same Afghanistan for whom Pakistan became a front line state and fought off the Soviets. A text book example of foreign policy failure.
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Apr 17, 2018 03:34pm
What a great and grave tragedy?
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Apr 17, 2018 03:45pm
By whom permission our soldiers gone inside the Afghanistan territory then such type of reply is possible. Respect international norms
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Apr 17, 2018 03:54pm
@Rokyani
Pakistanis believe the ghani regime is on the payroll of Indians and the Afghans are extremely ungrateful and untrustworthy keeping in mind we have hosted up to 5m Afghan when they were need
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Apr 17, 2018 04:02pm
It was pakistan fault for entering into afghan soverignity without taking permission of afghan national force
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Apr 17, 2018 04:08pm
Very unfortunate incident between two countries. All the trouble between Pakistan and Afghanistan is cultivated by US since its presences in Afghanistan. There was no exchange of fire between two countries before US invasion.
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Apr 17, 2018 04:53pm
@Guest try it. Very soon u will realise the consequences.
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Apr 17, 2018 05:02pm
We will build a fence at the demarcation line. Who the hell is Afghanistan to demand we build it 5 meters inside the border?!
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Apr 17, 2018 05:20pm
@Imtiaz Ali Khan no they don't
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Apr 17, 2018 05:24pm
@Naxalite OK you are right, but you should also come togehter with them, then you will see how befiting reply is
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Apr 17, 2018 05:46pm
Why didn’t FC have air cover, why wasn’t this anticipated, why wasn’t there a cross border suppression of Afghan forces.
Why don’t fc get gunship coverage, or drone surveillance ahead of time.
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Apr 17, 2018 05:51pm
@Wahab do you have any proof, and logical credible reason to support your theory.
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Apr 17, 2018 06:53pm
Why did we enter Afghanistan?
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Apr 17, 2018 06:57pm
@Rokyani read article again
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Apr 17, 2018 10:19pm
Kill who come near fencing area... No warning no talk...
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Apr 17, 2018 10:30pm
After this incident there is no reason to keep Afghan refugees in Pakistan. They should go to Afghanistan to fight Talibans along with Afghan forces.
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Apr 17, 2018 11:05pm
Afghans are fellow Muslims and our brothers, but led by Afghans who work for foreign governments and their agendas.
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Apr 17, 2018 11:54pm
@Mukhtar Yes the fact they died on Afghanistan soil and the bodies were “handed” over to Pakistan.
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Apr 18, 2018 02:23am
Fencing should be completed at any cost because it has helped eradicating terrorism in Pakistan. I salute to the FC soldiers who got martyred.
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Apr 18, 2018 06:24am
Trust a snake but never trust a Afghani.
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Apr 18, 2018 06:25am
Pakistan is paying for the fruit general Zia ul haq brought to Pakistan from Afghanistan as refugees.
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Apr 18, 2018 06:26am
Pakistan army must act to teach them a lesson. And build a wall on border
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Apr 18, 2018 07:56am
Afghanistan surgical strike?
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Apr 18, 2018 08:31am
Muslim brotherhood, killing each other.
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Apr 18, 2018 08:46am
Body handed over to Pakistan means these people were inside Afghanistan before being killed. Nobody seems to be interested to know what were they doing there ?
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Apr 18, 2018 10:33am
Sad and tragic.
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Apr 18, 2018 11:54am
@Asit Ghosh The Afghan intelligence funded terrorists attacked in numbers of 100s and killed the 5 FC men fencing the border, then they took them for bargaining.
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