Friday, March 4, 2011 8:11 PM Posted by ZAKIR{F}KHURRAM Labels: War in Pakistan
Pakistan military bombs Afghanistan
Pakistani forces have bombarded residential areas and police checkpoints in eastern Afghanistan one day after Afghan and Pakistani troops exchanged fire across border, a top Afghan official says.
Major General Aminullah Amarkhel, commander of first zone of border force in eastern Afghanistan, said Pakistani jets targeted the areas in Gushte district in Nangarhar province on Thursday, a Press TV correspondent reported.
Pakistani troops also attacked residential areas and government buildings in the area, damaging two police checkpoints in the Thursday attack, according to the report.
The aerial and ground assaults have left no casualties, General Amarkhel went on to say.
The Afghan official condemned the attacks and warned that Afghan forces would respond to them if repeated.
On Wednesday, one Pakistani soldier was killed and three others were left injured after Afghan and Pakistani troops exchanged fire across the border.
The two sides blame each other for provoking the shootout in North Waziristan's Ghulam Khan District.
Afghan and Pakistani border troops have previously exchanged fire.
The incident was the most serious cross-border clash since May 2007, when clashes between Afghan and Pakistani troops left three civilians and a police officer dead.
Afghan and Western officials say Taliban militants hiding in Pakistan's border areas are behind the attacks inside Afghanistan.
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KARACHI - Interior Minister Rehman Malik announced that the government had decided to impose partial curfew in the violence-hit parts of the provincial metropolis from Sunday.
Security agencies, however, failed to control law and order situation in the city as eight more people lost their lives in target killing incidents on Sunday, brining total death toll to 35 since Thursday last.
Speaking to reporters at Karachi Airport before leaving for Islamabad, Rehman Malik said the decision regarding imposition of curfew had been taken in a high-level meeting held here.
The Interior Minister did not explain what he meant by "semi-curfew", but Sindh Home Ministry spokesman Sharfuddin Memon said, "It is for the authorities to decide for how long they would like a troubled area to remain under curfew."
Malik reiterated that a third force was involved in the incidents of target killing in the metropolis, which would be exposed soon.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik attended a high-level meeting at the CM House, which was presided over by Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah, to discuss the prevailing law and order situation in the metropolis. He also held one-on-one meeting with the Sindh CM.
IG Sindh Sultan Babar Khattak, CCPO Karachi Fayyaz Leghari and other police officials and law enforcement officials were present in the meeting.
According to a handout issued from the CM House after the meeting, the meeting decided to strictly take action against anti-social elements and that monitoring will further be broadened to keep a vigil on criminals and curb lawlessness.
Pakistani forces have bombarded residential areas and police checkpoints in eastern Afghanistan one day after Afghan and Pakistani troops exchanged fire across border, a top Afghan official says.
Major General Aminullah Amarkhel, commander of first zone of border force in eastern Afghanistan, said Pakistani jets targeted the areas in Gushte district in Nangarhar province on Thursday, a Press TV correspondent reported.
Pakistani troops also attacked residential areas and government buildings in the area, damaging two police checkpoints in the Thursday attack, according to the report.
The aerial and ground assaults have left no casualties, General Amarkhel went on to say.
The Afghan official condemned the attacks and warned that Afghan forces would respond to them if repeated.
On Wednesday, one Pakistani soldier was killed and three others were left injured after Afghan and Pakistani troops exchanged fire across the border.
The two sides blame each other for provoking the shootout in North Waziristan's Ghulam Khan District.
Afghan and Pakistani border troops have previously exchanged fire.
The incident was the most serious cross-border clash since May 2007, when clashes between Afghan and Pakistani troops left three civilians and a police officer dead.
Afghan and Western officials say Taliban militants hiding in Pakistan's border areas are behind the attacks inside Afghanistan.
RZS/AGB/HRF
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KARACHI - Interior Minister Rehman Malik announced that the government had decided to impose partial curfew in the violence-hit parts of the provincial metropolis from Sunday.
Security agencies, however, failed to control law and order situation in the city as eight more people lost their lives in target killing incidents on Sunday, brining total death toll to 35 since Thursday last.
Speaking to reporters at Karachi Airport before leaving for Islamabad, Rehman Malik said the decision regarding imposition of curfew had been taken in a high-level meeting held here.
The Interior Minister did not explain what he meant by "semi-curfew", but Sindh Home Ministry spokesman Sharfuddin Memon said, "It is for the authorities to decide for how long they would like a troubled area to remain under curfew."
Malik reiterated that a third force was involved in the incidents of target killing in the metropolis, which would be exposed soon.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik attended a high-level meeting at the CM House, which was presided over by Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah, to discuss the prevailing law and order situation in the metropolis. He also held one-on-one meeting with the Sindh CM.
IG Sindh Sultan Babar Khattak, CCPO Karachi Fayyaz Leghari and other police officials and law enforcement officials were present in the meeting.
According to a handout issued from the CM House after the meeting, the meeting decided to strictly take action against anti-social elements and that monitoring will further be broadened to keep a vigil on criminals and curb lawlessness.
