Pakistan Fires Artillery At Afghanistan!

**~~bengalraider~~** · 22 Jun 08,, 12:42

Afghan, NATO, Pakistani Troops Exchange Fire Across Durrand Line

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Artillery shells fired from Pakistan landed in an Afghan army compound and close to an international military base in Afghanistan on Saturday and NATO forces returned fire, the alliance said.

Elsewhere in Afghanistan, an improvised explosive device (IED) killed four U.S.-led coalition soldiers in the southern province of Kandahar, the scene of a large anti-Taliban offensive and an insurgent jail break.

Tension has mounted between Afghanistan and Pakistan in the last week after Afghan President Hamid Karzai threatened to send troops across the frontier to hunt down Taliban militants based in Pakistan's lawless border region. "An ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) forward operating base and an Afghan National Army compound in northeastern Paktika province were attacked with indirect fire from across the Afghanistan-Pakistan border today," an ISAF statement said. No casualties were reported.

Three artillery rounds landed near the ISAF base and three rounds landed inside an Afghan army compound, it said. "ISAF forces determined the origination of the rounds to be in Pakistan and returned artillery fire in self-defense." The Pakistani military was notified immediately when ISAF forces came under fire, the statement said. The armies of Pakistan, Afghanistan and ISAF maintain open channels of communication to avoid escalating any conflict.

A suspected Taliban rocket also hit a hospital in the northeastern town of Asadabad close to the Pakistan border on Saturday, killing one man and wounding another man and a woman, provincial Governor Sayed Fazlullah Wahidi said. He said the rocket appeared to have been fired from across the border inside Pakistan. Taliban insurgents are able to train, equip themselves and launch attacks into Afghanistan from Pakistan's tribal belt before returning to rest and regroup, analysts say.

The Taliban leadership also directs its campaign to oust the pro-Western Afghan government and drive out foreign forces from bases inside Pakistan. Pakistan denies the charges and says it has little power over its autonomous border regions. In Kandahar, two coalition soldiers were also wounded in the IED blast, a U.S. military statement said, without giving further details.

The Taliban have upped pressure on Kandahar in the past two weeks, freeing at least 300 of their comrades in the jail break, then occupying areas outside the town, forcing Afghan and foreign troops to launch a large offensive to clear them out. In another incident, an IED killed a Polish soldier from the ISAF and wounded four more on Saturday in Paktika province, the Polish news agency (PAP) said.

any comments guys!

**Agnostic Muslim** · 22 Jun 08,, 12:51

Your title is misleading.

The article only indicates that mortars were allegedly fired from Pakistani territory, not that the Pakistani SF's fired them.

Pakistani bases in/close to FATA also come under rocket and mortar attack from time to time.

**~~bengalraider~~** · 22 Jun 08,, 12:56

my article sya that artillery was fired from pakistani soil that's it , sure the terrorists can hide ak's and lmg's from the pakistan army, but do you mean to tell me that the pakistani army does not know about artillery being fired at a neighbouring country from it's soil?

**Agnostic Muslim** · 22 Jun 08,, 13:02

Originally Posted by bengalraider

my article sya that artillery was fired from pakistani soil that's it , sure the terrorists can hide ak's and lmg's from the pakistan army, but do you mean to tell me that the pakistani army does not know about artillery being fired at a neighbouring country from it's soil?

How do you think mortars and rockets are fired at Pakistani bases and towns?

**~~bengalraider~~** · 22 Jun 08,, 13:06

with the full complicity of whoever's incharge maybe !
really i don't know all i know pakistan has to get it's act together i for one would like to see an independent pakistan rather than a pakistan run by the united states.

**~~The One~~** · 22 Jun 08,, 13:12

Please post the source also

pakistani army does not know about artillery being fired at a neighbouring country from it's soil?

one more thing,the American army in Pakistan also don't know about it.

**Agnostic Muslim** · 22 Jun 08,, 13:15

Originally Posted by bengalraider

with the full complicity of whoever's incharge maybe !
really i don't know all i know pakistan has to get it's act together i for one would like to see an independent pakistan rather than a pakistan run by the united states.

The area is not under control, that much is clear. When an area is not under control things like this will happen. "Complicity of whoever is in charge" is just baseless speculation.

As for getting the area under control, it is a long term process, and the GoP has to respect the wishes of the Pakistani electorate and try peace talks. The whole thing is complicated by the political turmoil as well - but hey, this is democracy.

At least nothing akin to Hams got elected, this time.

**~~bengalraider~~** · 22 Jun 08,, 15:10

Originally Posted by The One

Please post the source also

the source is india-defence.com link follows
Afghan, NATO, Pakistani Troops Exchange Fire Across Durrand Line | India Defence

Originally Posted by The One

one more thing,the American army in Pakistan also don't know about it.

the Americans know about Pakistan's collaboration with Taliban.this was out on india-defence as well today
link-http://www.india-defence.com/reports-3879

Reports Suggest Taliban Serving Along Pakistani Soldiers In Frontier Corps
Reports Suggest Taliban Serving Along Pakistani Soldiers In Frontier Corps

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Dated 22/6/2008
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The Pakistani Frontier Corps has been heavily infiltrated and influenced by Taliban militants, according to classified US documents appeared in a daily in London on Sunday. There are "box loads" of reports of the troops joining militants in attacks on coalition forces, the classified US 'after-action' reports, compiled following clashes on Pakistan-Afghan border, said.

"The United States and NATO have substantial information on this problem. It's taking place at a variety of places along the border with the Frontier Corps giving direct and indirect assistance," the report in The Observer quoted an unnamed American official as saying. "I'm not saying it is everyone. There are some parts that have been quite helpful. But if you have seen the after-action reports of their involvement in attacks along the Afghan border you would appreciate the problem."

The US documents reportedly describe the direct involvement of Frontier Corps troops in attacks on the Afghan National Army and coalition forces, and also about detailed attacks launched so close to Frontier Corps outposts that Pakistani co-operation with the Taliban is assumed. The report quoted an unnamed source as saying: "The reality on the ground is that there are units so opposed to what the coalition is doing and so friendly to the other side that when the opportunity comes up they will fire on Afghan and coalition troops. And this is not random. It can be exceptionally well co-ordinated."

It quoted another unnamed source who had seen the documents as describing an attack last year where two Frontier Corps outposts appeared to have been directly involved in firing on Afghan forces before a militant attack. The report said that Frontier Corps personnel had in the past been implicated in the past in murdering US and Afghan officers. As the most high-profile case, it cited the example of Frontier Corps member killing Major Larry J Bauguess during a border mediation meeting.

James Appathurai, a NATO spokesman, said: "The real concern is that extremists in Pakistan are getting safe havens to rest, recuperate and retool in Pakistan and come across the border. The concerns have been conveyed to the Pakistan authorities."