Quetta, Aug 12: Two Pakistanis were injured in a gunbattle between Taliban and allied forces in Shorawak area of the Helmand province of Afghanistan close to Pakistani border.

According to the official sources, the Frontier Corps personnel intercepted a pick-up in the Inam-Bostan area close to the border in the Chagai district on Sunday.

Four people were in the vehicle and two of them were injured.

The FC personnel took them into custody.

During interrogation, the occupants of the pick-up said that Taj Mohammad and Allah Dost were working in the fields in a Pakistani village near Shorawak when the bullets fired by the

Taliban and allied forces hit them.

The two men belong to Nushki and Kuchlak. They were admitted to the Nushki hospital. Later, Taj Mohammad was shifted to Quetta as his condition was serious.

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