ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan’s envoy to P
akistan Omar Zakhilwal on Monday rejected claims that P
akistani security
forces killed 50 Afghan soldiers in retaliation to the Chaman cross-border attack, saying that only two Afghan soldiers were slain and seven others injured.
“Woke up to celebratory front page headlines today on all P
akistani papers saying P
akistan killed 50 Afghani soldiers and injured 100 in Chaman clash,” Zakhilwal tweeted.
“[The] truth is only 2 Afghan soldiers were shaheed and about 7 injured,” he added.
On Sunday, Balochistan Frontier Corps (FC) Inspector General (IG) Maj Gen Nadeem Anjum claimed that 50 Afghan security personnel were killed and another 100 injured as P
akistani
forces retaliated to unprovoked firing by Afghan border
forces on security personnel in Chaman area last week.
The FC chief said four or five checkpoints were also destroyed when P
akistani border guards retaliated to the cross-border attack, adding that Afghanistan pleaded for ceasefire on May 5, which P
akistan accepte
d. On Friday, P
akistan closed
the border after attacks by Afghan
forces on census staff and security personnel escorting them left 12 people dead and 40 others injured.
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