07 March 2017

News Story: Pakistan summons Afghan diplomat over cross-border attack

ISLAMABAD, March 6 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan on Monday summoned a senior Afghan diplomat and lodged protest over a recent cross-border attack that killed at least five Pakistani soldiers.

The army said earlier that terrorists launched attacks on three checkpoints in Mohmand Agency on late Sunday.

Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a splinter group of the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, claimed the attacks.

Pakistani officials insist that Ahrar, which is blamed for several deadly attacks in the country, "operates from the Afghan side of the border."

Read the full story at Xinhua