Terror Attacks from Afghanistan on Pakistan Continue

[Spring Onion]

Despite Karzai's assurance that he will check attacks by Afghan National Army on civilians in Pakistan yet another attack took place




Five killed in cross-border attack: officials

KHAR: Scores of armed militants crossed the border from Afghanistan on Thursday and stormed a village in the country’s tribal belt, killing five civilians, Pakistani officials said.

The militants targeted Mamond village in Bajaur district, which borders the Afghan province of Kunar, despite the presence of Pakistani security checkpoints erected to check Taliban militants.

“Some 250-300 militants targeted civilians in Mamond. At least five civilians, including two women were killed,” local government official Fazle Akbar told AFP.

Akbar said three women were also wounded in the attack, which took place about 65 kilometres northwest of Khar, the main town in Bajaur.

“We have sent army and paramilitary troops to the area as we got reports that militants are still present there,” a security official told AFP.

“Some militants were also killed when troops in the area responded, but we do not know the number of casualties yet,” the official said.

On June 1 and June 3, hundreds of militants besieged an area in Pakistan’s northwestern district of Upper Dir on the Afghan border, sparking prolonged fighting that killed at least 34 people.

Earlier in the day, a bomb attack on security forces severely wounded at least two security personnel in Upper Orakzai Agency, DawnNews reported. The bomb was said to be detonated through a remote-controlled device.

More than 4,400 people have been killed across Pakistan in attacks blamed on Taliban and other extremist networks over the last four years.
Five killed in cross-border attack: officials | Pakistan | DAWN.COM

 

[Abu Basit]

this is the gift for polishing American shoes-

 

[fast and furious]

R.I.P. the dead.

But arent the Afghan Taliban, the good Taliban fighting for their freedom from invading forces in Afghanistan.
Wat happened here ?

 

[Spring Onion]

R.I.P. the dead.

But arent the Afghan Taliban, the good Taliban fighting for their freedom from invading forces in Afghanistan.
Wat happened here ?

They were Afghan National Army personnel and also there are TTP terrorists who were given shelter by Afghanistanis

 

[mehru]

They were Afghan National Army personnel and also there are TTP terrorists who were given shelter by Afghanistanis

Are you sure? Looks like, Afghanistan has yet not learned to respect international borders.

 

[SpArK]

Afghan Militants Attack Pakistani Village
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June 16, 2011
Associated Press|by Anwarullah Khan


KHAR, Pakistan --- More than 200 militants crossed into Pakistan from Afghanistan early Thursday and attacked a border village with rockets, mortars and machine guns, killing five people and kidnapping more than 20, officials and residents said.


The deadly raid underlines challenges ahead for the U.S. and Pakistan when Washington begins withdrawing troops from Afghanistan later this year.

Pakistan maintains that NATO already needs more troops along the Afghan side of the border.


On Thursday, the Pakistani military fought with the militants for roughly six hours, using helicopter gunships, said Sajid Khan, a senior government official in the Bajur tribal region. The dead included three women and two men, and eight others were wounded, he said.
The militants fled after the military brought in reinforcements and hit them with artillery fire, said local resident Asar Khan. But they kidnapped more than 20 tribesmen and took them along, he said.


It was the second such raid in just two weeks, illustrating how militants can easily move across the rugged border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Pakistan has complained that NATO forces in Afghanistan are not doing enough to stem the flow of militants across the border, while the U.S. says Pakistan's military must do more to stop fighters from streaming into Afghanistan.


Earlier this month, militants swarmed into Pakistan's Upper Dir district from Afghanistan, triggering fighting that lasted several days before the Pakistani military was able to force them back across the border. The government said at least 25 soldiers, 35 militants and three civilians were killed in the clashes.

Both Bajur and Upper Dir are located across the border from Afghanistan's Kunar province, large parts of which are controlled by the Taliban.
Meanwhile, NATO countries, including the U.S., suspect Pakistan is refusing to target Afghan Taliban militants and their allies holed up in the country because the government believes they could be useful allies in Afghanistan after foreign forces withdraw.


In the past, NATO and Pakistani forces have staged coordinated "hammer and anvil" operations against militants on the border, but relations between Washington and Islamabad have hit a particularly rough patch, especially since the unilateral American raid in Pakistan that killed Osama bin Laden on May 2.

Even so, NATO officials say that border cooperation has not suffered as a result of the chill in ties.


Afghan Militants Attack Pakistani Village

 

[mymeaningislion]

as far as proofs are concern these are provided by PAK to USA but USA demanded that pak have to interfere in Afghanistan and should carry out operation against afghan Taliban then America will make India to move out of Afghanistan...... here pak is not ready..... and if you analyze these attacks are used to provoke Pakistan to directly interfere with afghan Taliban........ so i am confident that good decision will be taken for the betterment of this region..... without USA.

 

[Varad]

RIP to the dead.

 

[Spring Onion]

Are you sure? Looks like, Afghanistan has yet not learned to respect international borders.

yes dear the last time they entered Pakistani village killed children and women and slaughtered FC men (who had fought to last bullet but when the ammunition ended the attackers besieged them and tied, blind folded and slaughtered them brutally)

 

[Dance]

And yet again NATO and the afghan national "army" fail in protecting their borders.

 

[fast and furious]

And yet again NATO and the afghan national "army" fail in protecting their borders.

Is it not your border to defend as well ?

 

[jbond197]

yes dear the last time they entered Pakistani village killed children and women and slaughtered FC men (who had fought to last bullet but when the ammunition ended the attackers besieged them and tied, blind folded and slaughtered them brutally)

That's unbelievable that the professional army ran out of ammunition before cave dwelling fighters.. hmm.. Miss journo come up with some thing better and more credible next time..

 

[Zarvan]

R.I.P. the dead.

But arent the Afghan Taliban, the good Taliban fighting for their freedom from invading forces in Afghanistan.
Wat happened here ?

Sir it is the old tactic come from your friends area attack your enemy and all blame will be on your friend

 

[fast and furious]

They were Afghan National Army personnel and also there are TTP terrorists who were given shelter by Afghanistanis

So isn't it an act of war where an army of a nation enters another and engages the army of the defending nation.

or,are you just trying to customize your theory to this incident as well.

 

[fast and furious]

Sir it is the old tactic come from your friends area attack your enemy and all blame will be on your friend

Sir please explain the word 'old'.I think this is the second attack of this on your forward posts.

I will tell you whats 'old'.

Right after the Taliban were defeated in Afghanistan back in 2002.The NATO forces and Afghans kept telling the GOP that the militants kept escaping into Pakistan,where they were 'regrouping' after surprise attacks on the allied forces.
The GOP and a lot of Pakistanis(Including the mighty PA) kept saying that the border is very Porous and they cant do a lot.

Now that the shoe is on the other foot,The border is not so porous.I find it kinda strange.