Kabul summons Pakistani ambassador over cross-border shelling

ISLAMABAD: 

Afghanistan summoned Pakistan’s Ambassador in Kabul on Thursday (today), to lodge a formal protest over the recent cross-border shelling.

“Pakistan’s ambassador in Kabul, Abrar Hussain, was summoned to the Foreign Ministry on Thursday and a formal protest was lodged over Pakistani forces shelling on the Afghan border police in Angor Hadda area in district Barmal of Paktika province,” Afghan Foreign Ministry said.

Further, the statement in Dari language sent to a private media outlet claimed that “The Afghan Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Hekmat Khalil Karzai expressed serious concerns over the firing.”

“The honourable minister described the Pakistani action as contrary to principles of international law and diplomatic relations to Pakistan and asked the ambassador in Kabul to convey to the government of Pakistan to take immediate steps to prevent such movements of the security forces.”