Afghanistan summons Pakistan's envoy over alleged Nuristan infiltration plot
Afghanistan's foreign ministry says it has summoned Pakistan's charge d'affaires in Kabul and handed over a formal protest over the alleged entry of armed groups across the Durand Line into Nuristan.
Afghanistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs says it has summoned Pakistan’s charge d’affaires in Kabul and handed him a formal protest over the alleged entry of armed and hostile elements across the Durand Line toward Nuristan province.
The move follows an operation announced by Afghanistan’s Ministry of Defence two days earlier in Kamdesh district of Nuristan, in which it said 28 people were killed and 32 others captured.
The defence ministry claimed several groups affiliated with Daesh and what it called “Shar-o-Fasad” elements had crossed into Afghan territory with the support and encouragement of Pakistani militias, seeking to carry out acts of subversion and create insecurity.
It further alleged that Pakistani military personnel, Pakistan-affiliated “Arbaki” forces and Daesh elements coordinated with the groups, and that some of those involved were former military personnel of the previous Afghan government whom Pakistani intelligence had lured with promises of asylum and employment abroad before training them in camps along the Durand Line.
The foreign ministry said the attempt was prevented by Afghan security forces, accused Pakistan of facilitating the recruitment, organisation, training and equipping of hostile elements, and warned Pakistan’s military authorities would bear full responsibility for any consequences if such actions continued.
Pakistan has rejected the allegations of involvement by its security and intelligence forces, with the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting calling them “frivolous, baseless and devoid of any truth” and saying no evidence has been produced.
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