Chaman limit attack: 50 Afghan soldiers killed, 100 harmed in retaliatory fire, says IG FC

Inspector General Frontier Corps (FC) Major General Nadeem Ahmed has pronounced Afghan army targeted municipal race while Pakistan targeted their check-posts, inflicting complicated casualties.

At slightest 10 people including an FC crew and women, children were killed and 47 others harmed when Afghan army targeted infantry guarding a census team in Chaman on Friday.

“Afghan forces entered Pakistan and assigned houses to take position and launch an attack,” a IG FC told a news discussion Sunday afternoon.

“Pakistani forces, on a other hand, targeted Afghan confidence check-posts, murdering 50 people and injuring 100,” Ahmed added. “The army targeted civilians and used children as tellurian shields.”

“Nevertheless, we did not feel jubilant during a waste inflicted on a other side as Afghans are a brothers.”

Pakistan will respond instantly, effectively to limit violations: Khawaja Asif

Subsequently, a Afghan side contacted Pakistan requesting ceasefire, that was accorded and welcomed, he said. “A dwindle assembly on a internal turn was also held.”

“The whole shortcoming of a incident, Ahmed added, lies with a Afghan forces,” a IG pronounced and combined that any such charge in destiny will result in a duplicate and identical reaction. Ahmed went on to supplement that a occurrence was a outcome of Afghan-India collusion.

Ahmed pronounced Pakistan was targeted notwithstanding that a Afghan side was well sensitive of a ongoing census activity.

“We wish to make it transparent that Pakistan’s general limit is non-negotiable and no concede will be done on it.”

We are grateful to a tribes of Chaman who extended team-work to a confidence army in the time-testing situation. The polite administration, has done good arrangements in terms of security.

The conflict caused a limit to be sealed again indefinitely while a curfew was imposed in Torkham concert as a preemptive measure.

On Saturday, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif reiterated a position for compelling mutual team-work with Afghanistan to discharge terrorism, though done it transparent Pakistan would respond now and effectively in a fitting approach to limit violations.

Article source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1403699/50-afghan-soldiers-killed-100-injured-retaliatory-fire-ig-fc/