PESHAWAR (Pajhwok): Pakistan says a recent attack on two military posts in the Chitral district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province was an “isolated incident” that was not aided by the interim Afghan government.
At least four security personnel and 16 fighters had been killed in Wednesday’s attack in the southern part of the district, bordering Afghanistan’s Nuristan province.
Caretaker Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani called the assault an isolated incident. “We don’t think it had their (Afghan government) sanction.”
Speaking to reporters in Islamabad, he described ongoing negotiations with the Afghan government on curbing militancy as “very positive . . .
