Tariq Saeed
Peshawar
In an abortive attempt from the hostile Afghanistan two mortar shells were fired in to the Khyber tribal district on Wednesday forcing the administration to temporarily close the Pak-Afghan border at Torkham.
0n Wednesday two rockets fired from the Afghan side of border that landed in Pakistan’s area though no casualty or damage was reported. Foreign Office confirmed.
The FO spokesperson Aisha Farooqui said Torkham border has been closed in view of security concern adding the Pakistan has raised the matter with senior Afghan officials regarding the cross-border rocket attack.
According to reports the mortar shells fired from an unidentified location from Afghanistan side exploded at a rain stream in Khyber district near Torkham border.
The officials said that Torkham border was temporarily closed for travelling yet it would be reopened soon.
The border crossing according reports, was reopened for the travellers on foot while it was closed for 12 hours for the vehicular traffic.
As the naked aggression from the neighboring country continued unabated for the last many years, Bajaur district has mostly been victim to more mortar shell firing that often remained abortive yet many times left civilian as well as security personnel martyred and wounded seriously.
Though the Military authorities as well as the Pakistani government lodged strong protest with the Afghan government over unprovoked attacks asking them to check the ambushes launched by the miscreants from their safe havens inside Afghanistan. Afghan government paid no heed to the this serious and continued violation of the territorial integrity of the neighbor Pakistan.
