ISLAMABAD: Two Pakistani soldiers were shot dead and five injured by fire from Afghanistan in the Kurram tribal region on Sunday, Pakistan’s military said.
The soldiers were carrying out routine surveillance along the border, said the military’s media wing, Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR). The two countries share a 2,400-km border.
Islamabad says Tahreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is using Afghan soil to launch terrorist attack inside Pakistan.
On Thursday, Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Faisal said TTP, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, Lashkar-e-Islam and other terrorist groups had been eliminated from its soil.
“They have relocated themselves in Afghanistan,” he said. “Daesh too has made sanctuaries on the Afghan side of the… border. These terrorist groups regularly undertake cross-border raids on our posts.”
Pakistan respects Afghanistan’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, he said, adding: “We neither step into Afghan soil nor fire inside its territory.”
He said: “In some locations… Afghan forces have taken action against terrorist sanctuaries along the border and deployed its troops. We urge Afghanistan to take similar actions in other terrorist-infested areas.”
He added: “We have shared actionable intelligence with the Afghan side about the hideouts of terrorists along the… border.”
2 Pakistani soldiers killed, 5 injured in attack from Afghanistan
2 Pakistani soldiers killed, 5 injured in attack from Afghanistan
