Pak Border tensions: Kabul threatens to move UN

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Pak Border tensions: Kabul threatens to move UN

Mortar and artillery fire by Pakistani security forces into border areas of Kunar increased after 17 Pakistani soldiers were killed by marauding militants from the banned TTP. PHOTO: EPA/FILE
" The Afghan government wants the repatriation to take place with honour and dignity," Ambassador of Afghanistan Omar Daudzai. Mortar and artillery fire by Pakistani security forces into border areas of Kunar increased after 17 Pakistani soldiers were killed by marauding militants from the banned TTP. PHOTO: EPA/FILE



ISLAMABAD / KABUL: Amidst simmering tensions over cross-border attacks by Taliban insurgents and retaliatory action from Pakistani security forces, Kabul warned on Sunday that it would move the United Nations if the matter was not resolved diplomatically.

This came as Kabul’s top diplomat in Islamabad called for an ‘urgent huddle’ of security officials and experts from both countries to defuse the situation which can bedevil their bilateral diplomatic relations.

“Pakistan should respect its neighbours and immediately stop missile attacks,” Faramarz Tamana, the deputy spokesperson for the Afghan foreign ministry, told a news conference in Kabul.

“The ministry condemns missile attacks from the neighbouring country into the Afghan province,” Pojhwok Afghan News quoted Tamana as saying. Afghan Ambassador in Islamabad Omar Daudzai has taken up the matter with Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar, he added.

Mortar and artillery fire by Pakistani security forces into border areas of Kunar increased after 17 Pakistani soldiers were killed by marauding militants from the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, who have found safe havens in eastern Afghanistan after fleeing military operations.

Blame game

Pakistani officials say that fugitive TTP militants, led by their senior cadres Maulvi Fazlullah and Maulvi Faqir Muhammad are using Kunar and Nuristan as a springboard for launching attacks on Pakistani security forces – a claim recently condoned by the TTP.

Following the June 24 deadly attack on Pakistani security forces by TTP militants in Upper Dir, Maulvi Fazlullah’s spokesperson Sirajuddin Ahmed had said that Afghan militants were aiding them in cross-border attacks.

Afghan officials, on the other hand, accuse Pakistani security forces of targeting Afghan civilians in the two provinces with mortar and artillery shelling.

Ambassador Daudzai suggested that security officials and technical experts from the two countries should sit together ‘as soon as possible’ to resolve the issue.

“Afghan President Hamid Karzai will also discuss border tensions with Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf when the latter visits Kabul on July 16-17,” Daudzai told The Express Tribune.

The Pakistani premier was earlier scheduled to visit Kabul on July 9, but the trip was postponed by a week, official sources said. “Pakistani and Afghani leaders will exchange views on the border tensions and I hope they will resolve the matter amicably,” Daudzai said.

Afghan refugees

The two leaders are also expected to discuss the thorny issue of repatriation of Afghan refugees from Pakistan, according to Daudzai. Pakistan had given illegal Afghan immigrants, mostly living in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, until June 30 to return home voluntarily.

“Pakistan, as a neighbor, should not set deadlines. The Afghan government wants the repatriation to take place with honour and dignity,” said the ambassador.

(With additional input from News Desk)

Published in The Express Tribune, July 2nd, 2012.

Border tensions: Kabul threatens to move UN – The Express Tribune

 

[TaimiKhan]

I hope the Pak security forces keep up the shelling and start cross border raids as well as aerial PGM strikes on suspected TTP locations and should avoid civilian casualties and not to target civilian areas.

As for refugees, they should be sent back immediately, the injection of millions of Afghans back to Afghanistan will give lot of boost to the local Afghan human infrastructure, will provide more human resource for the security forces, manpower for the development projects and will help in Afghans taking the destiny of their country in their own hands. Send them back asap.

And as for going to UN, i wonder did Pak ever said to go to UN after so many deadly raids happening which are launched from Afghanistan. Heck, even the drone strikes are carried out from the Afghan territory, did we said we will go to UN for Afghanistan letting USofA use its soil for launching attacks on Pak soil.

Afghanistan should not be such a big crying baby, instead of threatening us with going to UN, they should take care of things inside Afghanistan, deploy their forces in areas controlled by Taliban, ask US/NATO to get 200k more troops and start cleaning the Taliban infrastructure within Afghanistan and deploy more troops on the border to control cross border infiltration.

And they should take back Kunar & Nooristan back from the Taliban.

 

[Shafi Nasir]

I hope the Pak security forces keep up the shelling and start cross border raids as well as aerial PGM strikes on suspected TTP locations and should avoid civilian casualties and not to target civilian areas.

As for refugees, they should be sent back immediately, the injection of millions of Afghans back to Afghanistan will give lot of boost to the local Afghan human infrastructure, will provide more human resource for the security forces, manpower for the development projects and will help in Afghans taking the destiny of their country in their own hands. Send them back asap.

And as for going to UN, i wonder did Pak ever said to go to UN after so many deadly raids happening which are launched from Afghanistan. Heck, even the drone strikes are carried out from the Afghan territory, did we said we will go to UN for Afghanistan letting USofA use its soil for launching attacks on Pak soil.

Afghanistan should not be such a big crying baby, instead of threatening us with going to UN, they should take care of things inside Afghanistan, deploy their forces in areas controlled by Taliban, ask US/NATO to get 200k more troops and start cleaning the Taliban infrastructure within Afghanistan and deploy more troops on the border to control cross border infiltration.

And they should take back Kunar & Nooristan back from the Taliban.

Indeed and we will welcome Afghanistan to go to the UN as we are having the same problem but we get innocent casualties and we target militants and we also want the same way to solve the problem

 

[IceCold]

I hope the Pak security forces keep up the shelling and start cross border raids as well as aerial PGM strikes on suspected TTP locations and should avoid civilian casualties and not to target civilian areas.

You can forget this part as long as we have rental Raja as our PM and a thief as our president. This government is not only corrupt but lacks the morality to standup for Pakistan to protect its long term interests. These guys are traitors of the highest order and before we even think of getting rid of people like fazal ullah, we need to get rid of these scums of the earth we have as our leaders.

 

[Icarus]

"If Pakistan will not clear their land of militants, the ANA shall be forced to do so instead"-Karazai in 2008


Now that our lands are cleared and theirs still fester with the rot that we know as the Taliban, it only makes sense that we make good on the president's statement and fix the situation for him.

On a serious note, Pukhtunwali clearly states that each "Qoum" is responsible for their "Patti". If there Patti is used for attack on another Qoum then they will either hand over the guilty party or will commit that they have no "Waas". After which the party that has been wronged will take initiative to fight their enemy on the other Qoum's patti.

That's the law of the land, thats the code people live by and the PA is acting in strict accordance with Riwaj. No pukhtun will object if the clause of Riwaj is invoked.

 

[Awesome]

When the UN is moved, we'll raise the issue of drone attacks from Afghanistan into our territory.

Its the same thing.

 

[regular]

Let them move the issue within UN.......

 

[SamranAli]

it will benefitial for Pakistan because our govt is not moving itself to UN, in this way it will be called to speak what we are facing.

 

[solkahn]

Now when they kill our soldiers no body goes to the UN now when these INDIAN RAW BACKED AFGHANS are **** F*****D suddenly karzai realizes to go to UN he is seriously a silly president puppet of the PORKY WHITE RACE

 

[RazorMC]

Afghanistan is not strong enough to take such a step on its own. Maybe they believe they have international support but a resolution in the UN is a different matter altogether, well beyond their limits.

 

[Patriot]

Sure....go ahead.

 

[Irfan Baloch]

When the UN is moved, we'll raise the issue of drone attacks from Afghanistan into our territory.

Its the same thing.

And we will use the same argument levelled against us.

Fazlullah is loitering in Nooristan and Molvi Faqir and Hakim Ullah in Kunar .. these are the places that have been forsaken by the mighty NATO forces and Taliban , virtually run these places and launch attacks against Pakistan.

why the Afghan Government doesnt establish its writ in those areas? if they cant stop the terrorists from using those places to use as the safe heavens for launching attacks against Pakistan then we also have to use whatever force we can.
if Drone strikes are justified then our artillery strikes are also.

 

[JonAsad]

Well it will be in our advantage-
Once UN is involved-
The drones-
The fencing of borders- issue will commence aswell-

 

[Baby Leone]

lol

ek to chori uper se sena zori..

 

[Hulk]

@AM told me that if you attack knowing fully well that there would be civilian casualty is terrorism. I want to see his comments now.