Hundreds protest Pakistan cross-border attacks in eastern Afghanistan

2011-07-12 05:13:21 GMT+7 (ICT)

JALALABAD, AFGHANISTAN (BNO NEWS) -- Hundreds of people on Monday took to the streets of Jalalabad city in eastern Afghanistan to protest cross-border attacks from Pakistan.

Pajhwok Afghan News reported that nearly 500 demonstrators chanted anti-Pakistan slogans to protest cross-border attacks that they claim have killed scores of people and displaced hundreds of others in the eastern provinces of Kunar, Nangarhar and Khost. They also criticized the Afghan government for failing to respond to the attacks effectively.

Relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan have been strained by the escalating border dispute. Afghan President Hamid Karzai has told Pakistani army chief Ashfaq Kayani that the attacks must stop, while Pakistan claims that insurgents from Afghanistan have carried out cross-border attacks against security checkpoints.

On Thursday, military officials from Pakistan and Afghanistan met in Peshawar and agreed to hold more high-level meetings to resolve the dispute.

Last month, Pakistan lodged a protest with the United States and Afghanistan over border incursions by NATO aircraft and Afghan militants. The Foreign Ministry also summoned a top Afghan official to lodge a protest about an insurgent incursion into the Bajur tribal region where five people died.

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About time.

One post which is a slur against the people of the region has been removed.

Please refrain from making derogatory remarks aimed at the population as a whole.

Thanks.