{"id":10817,"date":"2023-10-04T18:00:10","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T18:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/2-dead-1-injured-in-unprovoked-indiscriminate-firing-by-afghan-sentry-on-pedestrians-at-chaman-border-ispr\/"},"modified":"2023-10-04T18:00:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T18:00:10","slug":"2-dead-1-injured-in-unprovoked-indiscriminate-firing-by-afghan-sentry-on-pedestrians-at-chaman-border-ispr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/2-dead-1-injured-in-unprovoked-indiscriminate-firing-by-afghan-sentry-on-pedestrians-at-chaman-border-ispr\/","title":{"rendered":"2 dead, 1 injured in \u2018unprovoked, indiscriminate\u2019 firing by Afghan sentry on pedestrians at Chaman border: ISPR"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At least two people, including a 12-year-old child, were killed on Wednesday when an Afghan sentry opened \u201cunprovoked and indiscriminate\u201d firing on pedestrians at the Chaman border in Balochistan, the military\u2019s media affairs wing said.<\/p>\n

According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), a child was also injured during the firing.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn October 4, at 1600 hours, an Afghan sentry employed at Friendship Gate of Chaman Border Crossing along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Balochistan opened unprovoked and indiscriminate firing at pedestrians moving from Pakistan to Afghanistan,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

The ISPR said the incident occurred at the outbound gate located on the zero line.<\/p>\n

\u201cOwn troops exercised extreme restraint and avoided any exchange of fire in the presence of innocent passengers to avoid collateral damage,\u201d it stated.<\/p>\n

The ISPR said the bodies have been shifted to the Chaman District Headquarters Hospital and the injured child, who was immediately evacuated by security forces, is under treatment.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfghan authorities have been approached to inquire the reason for such irresponsible and reckless act, apprehend and hand over the culprit to Pakistani authorities,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n

It added that the interim Afghan government was expected to \u201cexercise control over its troops and impart discipline to act responsibly in order to avoid recurrence of such incidents in future\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cPakistan remains committed to contributing towards peace, prosperity and development through positive and constructive bilateral relations, however, such unpleasant occurrences have the potential to harm the sincere intent and purpose,\u201d the ISPR statement concluded.<\/p>\n

Last year, six people were killed and 17 others sustained injuries<\/a> in firing by the Afghan Border Forces at the Chaman border. The incident was widely condemned by the then-government, Foreign Office and diplomats.<\/p>\n

The cross-border attack had also led to the closure of the busy Chaman border crossing used for trade and transit.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s incident comes a day after the caretaker government gave an ultimatum<\/a> to all undocumented immigrants, including Afghan nationals, to leave Pakistan by October 31, or risk imprisonment and deportation to their respective countries.<\/p>\n

The new policy announcement triggered concerns by several quarters, including the Afghan government which termed it \u201cunacceptable<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n

In a statement released immediately after the cross-border attack was reported, interim Interior Minister Sarfaraz Bugti said an elderly man and a child were martyred in the firing. He added it was initiated by the Afghan side.<\/p>\n

\u201cSuch incidents are not acceptable in any way, The Pakistani forces showed patience and tolerance on the unprovoked firing, and our soldiers avoided retaliatory firing due to the presence of civilians.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is hoped that the Afghan government will take this incident seriously and ensure strict action,\u201d he stated, adding that such incidents had a negative impact on bilateral relations.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At least two people, including a 12-year-old child, were killed on Wednesday when an Afghan sentry opened \u201cunprovoked and indiscriminate\u201d firing on pedestrians at the Chaman border in Balochistan, the military\u2019s media affairs wing said. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), a child was also injured during the firing. \u201cOn October 4, at 1600 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2023\/10\/04201919cd32f4f.jpg?r=201946","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}