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Saturday, June 18, 2011

Afghan Chage d’ Affairs summoned by FO over cross-border incursion

ISLAMABAD: The Afghanistan Charge d’ Affaires, Majnoon Gulab was summoned to the Foreign Office Friday.

A strong demarche was lodged with him on the incident, which took place at 0420 hours on 16 June 2011 during which 100-150 terrorists crossed the border with Afghanistan and attacked three Pakistani villages in the Bajaur sector. 
The cross-border incursion resulted in martyrdom of 5 civilians including 3 males and 2 females and one Frontier Scout and 3 civilian (females) were injured.
Serious concerns of the Government of Pakistan was conveyed to the Afghan Charge d’ Affaires.
The Government of Afghanistan was asked to prevent such cross-border incidents from occurring in the future. Online