“At around 11 a.m. today, Pakistani troops in Waziristan
started firing heavy and light weapons towards police
posts in Gurbuz district. Our soldiers returned fire,”
the official said.
“Their attack was completely unprovoked and without
reason. The fighting is still continuing, there haven’t
been casualties on our side,” he added.
In Peshawar, a senior military official said one Pakistani
soldier had been killed and three wounded.
“Afghan forces fired several mortar shells on one
of our military check posts, leaving one soldier dead
and injuring three others. We fired in retaliation. Our
troops are using artillery and mortars,” the official
said.
Two Pakistani intelligence officials told AFP that Afghan
troops fired mortars into Bange-i-Dar check post in Ghulam
Khan town in North Waziristan tribal district.
“We’re receiving fire from Tangrai check
post in the Afghan province of Khost. There are Afghan
army in that check post,” one of them said.
“We are responding with artillery and mortars,”
he added.
It was the most serious cross-border clash between Afghan
and Pakistani troops since May 2007, when three civilians
and a policeman were killed.
