Afghan National Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib, during a visit to the eastern provinces on Tuesday said that the recent artillery attacks by the Pakistani’ military forces on Afghanistan’s eastern Kunar province will not go without a response.

He said that over the past eighteen years attacks were launched on some regions of Kunar province without any legal justification which are aimed to expand the influence of the insurgents.

Reports show that several civilians have lost their lives as a result of mortar attacks by the Pakistani amred forces.

“Two of our family members were martyred because of these attacks, my sister-in-law and brother-in-law,” said Moman, a resident in Sarkano district of Kunar.

“If there is a war here across the Durand Line, the victims are only the civilians and the villagers,” said Mohammad Rahim, a tribal elder in Kunar.

“The enemy should remember that we will defend each inch of our homeland, if they think that their attacks will go without a response, this is their dream and imagination,” said Mohib.

Even in the southern province of Kandahar, the tribal elders in the province raised their anger over Pakistan’s mortar attacks on Kunar.

“No free Afghan accepts incidents such as Kunar incidents,” said Naqibullah Khan, a political activist in Kandahar.

“We call on the UN Security Council to put pressure on Pakistan to respect the principles of the neighborhood based on the international law and we ask Pakistan to abide by its commitments,” said Atta Jan Haqbayan, the head of Zabul provincial council.

At least eight civilians were killed and eleven others were wounded following last week’s artillery attacks by Pakistani forces on the Sarkano district in Kunar, as well as Asadabad, the provincial capital, according to the local officials in the area.

Local officials in Kunar have said that the firefight between Afghan and Pakistani forces broke out after Pakistani forces tried to establish new outposts inside the Afghan territory.

Five months back, similar clashes broke out in the same area between Afghan and Pakistani forces.

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