World News | Dozens wounded in Pakistan’s Baluchistan as Afghan border guards open fire

ISLAMABAD, 15th December (PTI) Afghan border guards fired “indiscriminate fire” into Baluchistan province on Thursday, injuring at least 15 people, the second time in less than a week that Pakistani defense sources said Such fires.

“Children and women” were also injured in the shooting in the Chaman district of Baluchistan province, the source said.

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Dr. Abdul Malik of Chaman District Headquarters Hospital told Pakistani media that at least 15 injured civilians had been taken to the facility.

This is the second cross-border attack by Afghan forces. They took a similar action on 10 December, killing seven civilians and injuring 16 others.

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Pakistan condemned the incident at the highest level, but Afghan authorities expressed regret before Islamabad decided not to pursue the matter.

However, the latest dismissal shows the mistrust between the two parties.

The Chaman crossing, also known as the Friendship Gate, connects Balochistan to Kandahar in Afghanistan. Last month, an armed Afghan crossed the Pakistani side of the border and opened fire on security forces, killing one soldier and wounding two others.

The standoff at the border last week came just 24 hours after Pakistani authorities said their counterterrorism forces intercepted and killed four Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K) fighters near the border with Afghanistan.

Last month, eight people, including two children and three paramilitary soldiers, were wounded in the Kurlam district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province when some Afghans opened fire on them during an altercation.

Pakistan and Afghanistan share a volatile border of 2,600 kilometers.

Islamabad has completed nearly 90 percent of the fencing along the border despite protests from Kabul, which disputes the century-old British-era border delineation that separates families on both sides.

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