ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan’s top envoy to Pakistan Omar Zakhilwal on Monday rubbished claims that Pakistani security forces killed 50 Afghan soldiers in retaliation to the Chaman cross-border attack, saying that only two Afghan soldiers were killed and seven others injured.
“Woke up to celebratory front page headlines on Monday on all Pakistani papers saying Pakistan killed 50 Afghani soldiers and injured 100 in Chaman clash,” Zakhilwal in a series of tweets claimed. The Afghan envoy slammed the reports, saying, “The Chaman clash left casualties, deaths and injured on Pakistan side too but we, instead of celebrating, called it unfortunate and regrettable.” Zakhilwal asserted that the loss of even two lives “are too many if our claim for seeking good neighbourly relations is genuine and if we mean well for each other.”
On Sunday, Inspector General (IG) Frontier Corps (FC) Balochistan Maj Gen Nadeem said that 50 Afghan security personnel were killed and another 100 injured as Pakistani forces retaliated to unprovoked firing by Afghan border forces on security personnel in Balochistan’s Chaman area last week.
INP