CHAMAN: Pakistan closed its border with Afghanistan near Chaman for the fourth day, after top security officials blamed the suicide attack at the Lal Shahbaz Qalandar shrine last week, on an Afghan national.
Security beefed up and the Pakistan Army installed heavy artillery including tanks at the border area. Additional personnel have been placed at border routes and a security high alert has been issued.
The Pakistan government has asked its Afghan counterpart numerous times to crackdown on terrorists who had crossed over to Afghanistan.
However, some Afghan policy makers aim to use these terrorists to destabilize Pakistan, independent analysts suggest.
The sources  said, “Afghanistan is dealing with several issues at home which makes it difficult for them to initiate a crackdown against terrorists, but there are certain policy makers who tolerate these terrorists on the Afghan soil to later use them to destabilize Pakistan.â€
The Pakistan government had earlier given a list of 76 terrorists to the Afghan government who were orchestrating terrorist attacks in Pakistan from Afghan soil, Geo News reported.
Pakistan’s ambassador to Afghanistan Syed Abrar Hussain, summoned by the Afghan foreign office on Friday over Pakistani military’s cross-border strikes targeting terrorists, informed the office that all of the recent attacks in Pakistan were found to have been coordinated by terrorists based in Afghanistan.
According to sources from the embassy, the Afghan foreign office claimed in the meeting that Pakistan was carrying out shelling across the Pak-Afghan border. The Afghan foreign office further claimed that some Afghan soldiers had also been killed in these strikes.
Ambassador Abrar Hussain, in response, informed the Afghan foreign office that Pakistan had witnessed eight blasts in the past five days. All of these attacks were traced back to terrorist elements based on Afghan soil, the ambassador told the foreign office.
