Afghan Defense Minister Bismillah Khan Mohammadi says Afghan forces are ready to take action against Pakistani troops if they do not stop firing rockets on Afghan border villages immediately.
General Mohammadi, however, also told Afghan parliamentarians that the country’s military forces would wait for an order by the government to retaliate the attacks.
The warning came as tensions have been on the rise between Afghanistan and Pakistan in recent months over cross-border attacks.
Afghan officials say at least six people were killed and around 40 others injured by rockets fired from Pakistani territory in recent days.
The Afghan government also warned on Sunday that it would pull out of the security talks with Islamabad over the alleged cross-border rocket attacks by the Pakistani military.
Afghan security officials have already said they will not participate in a regional security summit in Islamabad scheduled for June 4.
On May 27, more than 300 rockets fired from the Pakistani side of the border, landed in different parts of Afghanistan.
Earlier in May, a Pakistani security official was killed by shots fired from Afghanistan in the mountainous border tribal region of Bajaur, which has seen bitter exchanges between the two countries over the demarcation of their border.
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