Destroys four camps and training centres across the border.
Islamabad: Pakistan forces destroyed four camps and training centres as they pounded the Jamaatul Ahrar’s bases across the border with Afghanistan, media reports said on Saturday.
The strikes were conducted hours after Afghan embassy officials were summoned to the Pakistan Army’s General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi, where they were handed over a list of 76 terrorists orchestrating terrorist activities in Pakistan from the Afghan soil.
Pakistan has repeatedly warned the Afghan authorities to prevent the use of their soil for terror activities in Pakistan.
Also on Saturday, the Afghan government summoned Pakistan’s ambassador in protest of recent shelling in Afghanistan’s eastern provinces.
Afghanistan’s foreign ministry summoned Ambassador Abrar Hussain in Kabul, where deputy foreign minister Hekmat Khalil Karzai asked for an explanation on the Pakistan forces’ strikes.
Mr Karzai also said the Afghan government wanted Pakistan to take strict action against terrorists that are hiding in Pakistan.
He also expressed concern over the closure of the Torkham border crossing and asked for the reopening of the gates.
The border was closed after a suicide bombing at a Lal Shahbaz Qalandar shrine in the Sindh province that killed 88 people and injured nearly 300 devotees.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has in the meanwhile asked the armed forces and law enforcement agencies to eliminate the enemies of the people with full force of the state. “It is an obligation on us towards future generations and others who are facing oppression,” he said
Two Pakistani officials say a second key Chaman border crossing into Afghanistan has been closed, halting trade supplies to the neighboring landlocked country.
The border closure in Pakistan’s southwest Baluchistan province comes after a suicide bombing.
It was seen as a tactic to pressure Kabul to act against militants who Pakistan says have sanctuaries in Afghanistan.
— With agency inputs
