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Pakistan accused the Afghan Taliban of building “unlawful structures” on the border and engaging in “indiscriminate firing” at Pakistanis.

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In response to Afghan statement on border closure, FO says Pakistan cannot accept the construction of any structures inside its territory.

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FO says Afghan troops resorted to indiscriminate firing, targeting Pakistan military posts, instead of peaceful resolution

Pakistan’s ministry of foreign affairs said Monday that Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) forces had been constructing structures inside Pakistan’s territory last week, which was in violation of its sovereignty. The ministry said in a statement on the closure of the Torkham crossing that the IEA’s statement “comes as a surprise as the Interim Afghan

Foreign Office has asked interim Afghan authorities to ensure that their territory is not used as a launching pad for terrorist attacks against Pakist...

“We expect the Afghan interim authorities to be mindful of Pakistan’s concerns, respect the territorial integrity of Pakistan and ensure that the Afghan territory is not used as a launching pad for terrorist attacks against Pakistan,” the Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said on Monday in response to media queries regarding the statement by the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the closure of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border at Torkham.

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Pakistan’s Foreign Office (FO) has said it wants its border with Afghanistan to be a one of “peace and amity between...