Border shelling: Obstinate Afghan government summons Pakistani envoy

The Afghan Foreign Ministry on Friday summoned Pakistan's Ambassador Abrar Hussain to protest its alleged border shelling in the Lalpor district of Nangarhar province and the Sarkano district of the eastern Kunar province. The foreign ministry claimed the rocket shelling left two dead and two others wounded. During the meeting Afghan deputy foreign minister Hekmat Khalil Karzai shared his condolences with the Pakistan envoy over recent suicide attacks in Pakistan.
Karzai said that Afghan government wants Pakistan's strict action against terrorist groups that have been allegedly hiding in Pakistan. He also denounced the border shelling on Nangarhar and Kunar and asked for explanation. Karzai shared his deep concern over arrest of 150 Afghan citizens and closure of Torkham and Chaman crossings and argued for release of the Afghan captives and the reopening of the gates.
In response, Pakistan ambassador in Kabul said he will convey the Afghan concerns to his country's high ranking officials. This comes after Nangarhar provincial governor Gulab Mangal claimed that since Thursday Pakistan military had fired 200 missiles into the Lalpor district of Nangarhar province.
According to Mangal, the rocket attacks caused hundreds of families to flee their homes. Two civilians were wounded. Local officials from Kunar province alleged that a woman and her son of 15 were killed by the missile attack in Sarkano district of Kunar province. Meanwhile Presidential palace rejected Pakistan's accusations that the recent suicide attack on the Lal Shahbaz Qalandar shrine in Pakistan was masterminded from Afghanistan soil.