A tit-for-tat response from the Pakistani security forces
silenced the enemy guns. The Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) said two
girls and two women were injured by the unprovoked Indian firing on a civilian
house in the Khoi Ratta area along the Line of Control (LoC) in Azad Kashmir.
“The injured women were evacuated by the army to a nearby
hospital,” the statement said. Pakistan and India had declared ceasefire along
the LoC and working boundary in 2003. The Pakistan Army soldier was injured
when terrorists opened fire from across the border in Mangrotai, South
Waziristan Agency (SWA).
According to the military media wing, the injured soldier
was evacuated by a copter to a medical facility in Wana. Meanwhile, the Afghan
Foreign Office on Sunday summoned Pakistan’s Ambassador Syed Abrar Hussain and
complained that due to the closing of the Pak-Afghan border people were facing
difficulties.
The Afghan officials charged that Pakistan was shelling
across the border. Setting the record straight, the Pakistani ambassador
told the Afghan officials that the Pakistani posts were being attacked and the
army was only retaliating.
He said Pakistan wanted peace in Afghanistan and had
initiated Operation Raddul Fasaad. “To ensure peace, closing the border was
imperative,” he said. On Feb 24, the Pakistan Army conducted targeted strikes
across the Afghan border, killing two high-profile terrorists affiliated with
the terrorist outfit Jamaat-ul-Ahrar.
Those killed included Wajihullah alias Ahrar, who was
sponsored by a hostile intelligence agency for terrorist activities in
Pakistan, security sources said. He was the mastermind of the recent
suicide attack in Lahore and earlier incidents in Punjab.
Earlier, Pakistan was hit by five terrorist attacks in a
week. In the wake of terrorist attacks, the Pakistan-Afghan border was shut
down and an operation was initiated to eliminate terrorism.
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