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Pakistani Taliban attack kills up to 38 Afghans - Yahoo! News

Up to 33 police and five civilians were killed in fighting after Taliban crossed over from Pakistan and attacked a remote region in eastern Afghanistan, an official said Wednesday.

Nuristan provincial governor Jamaluddin Badr said about 40 rebels also died in the two days of clashes that followed weeks of tit-for-tat allegations of cross-border attacks that have fanned diplomatic tensions.

But the interior ministry contradicted the toll and said 12 policemen had died and another five were wounded.

Dozens of rebels who began crossing the border from Pakistan on Tuesday triggered the fight, Badr told AFP, attacking police posts in the Kamdesh district of Nuristan.

"The report we have now from the area is that 33 border police and five civilians, two of them women, have been killed," he said.

He said most of the dead rebels were Pakistan Taliban.

The interior ministry said that "dozens" of rebels were killed in a clearance operation that lasted several hours, 12 of them Pakistanis.

"The situation in the border areas of Kamdesh district has returned to normal and police are strengthening their positions," it said.

The escalating conflict in the rugged border zone between Afghanistan and Pakistan has forced more than 200 Afghan families to flee so far, according to local officials, and is escalating tensions between the uneasy neighbours.

For weeks, security forces on both sides of the unmarked border have issued claim and counter-claim over cross-border rocket and guerrilla attacks that have reportedly killed dozens of villagers and terrified hundreds of others.

Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani called Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday to convey "serious" concern over cross-border incursions by militants, his office said.

"The prime minister expressed Pakistan's serious concern over the activities of the militants along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, especially in Dir, Bajaur (and) Mohmand on the Pakistan side and Kunar on the Afghan side," an official statement said.

It said Gilani told Karzai the situation needed "to be defused quickly".

The call came after Pakistani officials accused several hundred militants of infiltrating and attacking a village in the Pakistani district of Upper Dir, killing an anti-Taliban elder and setting fire to three schools.

"The village militia and Pakistan troops are retaliating," district police chief Mir Qasim Khan told AFP.

The rise in violence in an area swamped with Taliban and Al Qaeda-linked fighters underscores the problems faced in attempts to forge contacts between militants and regional power brokers and peacefully resolve a decade of war.

US troops earlier this year abandoned their easternmost outposts in the furthest reaches of Kunar and Nuristan provinces and since then insurgents have flooded back into Afghan valleys by the border, analysts say.

Afghan officials say about 800 rockets, mortars and artillery shells have been fired from Pakistan into Afghan villages since late May, leaving dozens of civilians dead, injured or displaced.

The Pakistan army denies it has targeted Afghan territory, saying that a few stray rounds may have crossed the border and complaining that villages on its side of the border have themselves been the victim of Afghan-based Taliban violence.

In Afghanistan, the top border police commander for the eastern region, General Aminullah Amerkhail, has resigned in protest at Kabul's reluctance to respond with counter-attacks, and ministers have reacted with fury.

President Hamid Karzai has appealed for calm over the issues, but expressed "deep concerns" to Pakistan's top commander General Ashfaq Kayani and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari in a recent meeting.
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This is an outrage!!! Where was the Pakistani military when this happened? Did they allow this? Wouldn't surprise me one bit.
 
" This is an outrage!!! Where was the Pakistani military when this happened? Did they allow this? Wouldn't surprise me one bit. "

Why is this an outrage ?? Why don't you ask the US/NATO, that where were their high tech surveillance platforms ?? Where are the drones, satellites which should be surveying the border for any kind of movement.

When the same militants cross over in hundreds and attack our civilian population and military personnel, then where is your out rage ?? Wouldn't surprise us if you people don't want this to happen deliberately.

Ask you military to apply some drones and surveillance stuff on the border and if they can use 500K troops in Iraq, then they can atleast use 100K troops on the border to check and engage the infiltration. But US/NATO is good at running away and leaving whole districts and provinces at the mercy of AQ & Talibans.
 
What nonsense - these militants have been living unhindered in Eastern Afghanistan since the US abandoned the area - Pakistan has been suffering attacks from militants based in these provinces since the US abandoned these areas, and has publicly complained and pointed this out over that time-frame.

Now, when the militant attacks against Pakistan, from these terrorists sheltered in Eastern Afghanistan, are increasing, and Pakistan is retaliating and highlighting the issue, the Afghans/US are resorting to a nonsensical argument of 'militants coming in from Pakistan'.

You idiots, that is exactly what Pakistan was complaining about since the US decision to abandon the region - that Pakistani militants are sheltering there, rebuilding and attacking Pakistan. Don't blame Pakistan if the people you allowed to shelter there now attack you, though I doubt that claim given the timing.
 
Afghani Talibans go into Pakistan and attack it and Pakistani Taliban goes into Afghanistan and attack..??
Its all US plan to be honest.
 
now the real evil game of the CIA/MI6 started within the region against the both(Afghan & Pak) the neighboring countries................after David patreaus took the CIA office.....:what:
 
BWHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

here starts the drama to hide their failure

why is this fuckking world would pakistani taliban attack some afghans???

the afghani talibans were attacking pakistani military
 
Just 38, poor job. Afghans need to be taught a tougher lesson for their terrorist acts.
 
Afghani Talibans go into Pakistan and attack it and Pakistani Taliban goes into Afghanistan and attack..??
Its all US plan to be honest.

Who told u these guy's were afghan talibans who attack pakistan?!!
They were actualy TTP dogs...
 
it looks like all planned.....NATO and USA are about to leave the area...they want to leave behind an ongoing conflict and war...thats what they do..
as pashtoonKhan says...its all a conspiracy to create confrontation between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
 
What were the drones doing ? Sleeping ?

They need to kill these bastards who kill innocent afghani civilians for nothing.
 
What were the drones doing ? Sleeping ?

They need to kill these bastards who kill innocent afghani civilians for nothing.

its all planned my friend......drones work for american benifits not against it......If they leave behind a conflict and a war zone..that will serve as a potential market for their weapons...if they leave peace behind...they will have to try sell hershey chocolates and that wont earn much revenue.
 
the drones were refuelling at that moment and being re armed and hence they didnt have the capability in place to spot and attack the TTP in time!
 
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