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Musharraf Blames Karzai, India for terrorist attacks in Pakistan
Pakistan former president, Parvez Musharraf accused Afghanistan outgoing president Hamid Karzai and Pakistan’s eastern neighbor, India of supporting Taliban splinter groups for terrorist attacks against Pakistan.
In an interview, Musharraf claimed that the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan commander, Maulana Fazlullah is in Afghanistan and he is reasonably sure that Maulana Fazlullah was supported by former Karzai government to carry out terror attacks in Pakistan.
Meanwhile, Afghanistan national defense ministry denied growing terrorism in Afghanistan but emphasized to reopen the coordination center in Torkham to eradicate terrorism between the armed forces of the two countries.
Deputy of defense ministry, Baz Muhammad Jawhari said, “Afghanistan is never interested in terrorism and if terrorist attacks are organizing in Afghanistan we will take serious actions”.
After Tuesday’s deadly attack on the school in Peshawar, Pakistan Army chief General Raheel Sharif on Wednesday made a short trip to Kabul to hold key meetings with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and ISAF commander in Kabul.
Afghan political analyst are said to believe Pakistan Army chief of staff’s trip to Afghanistan is Pakistan’s another ruse that blames Afghanistan for growing terrorism.
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More than 800 Afghan refugees deported from Pakistan in two days
As many as 837 Afghan refugees have been forced to return to their country through Torkham and Spin Boldak crossings in the last two days, officials announced on Saturday.
The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation said in a statement that 90 families comprising 468 people returned through Torkham crossing.
Another 67 families comprising 369 people returned through Spin Boldak crossing, it said.
The returnees have been introduced to international organizations to receive aid, and the Islamic Emirate has also paid 10,000 Afghanis to each family.
Pakistani government launched the second phase of deporting illegal refugees five days ago.
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Iran executes four Afghan prisoners
Iran executed four Afghan prisoners in Vakliabad Prison in Mashhad on Thursday morning, a human rights group reported.
Haalvsh said that the individuals had been arrested in 1398 over drug-related charges and then sentenced to death by the court.
This organization announced the names of the executed prisoners as Zaman Taheri, Salam Taheri, Gholam Qadir Samani and Ebrahim Noorzahi.
Zaman Taheri and Salam Taheri were brothers.
Iranian officials have not commented about the matter so far.
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Roof collapse kills two in Helmand
Two people were killed after roof of their house collapsed in southern Helmand province on Friday night, officials said.
Abdul Bari Rashid, head of information and culture in Helmand, told Ariana News that the incident occurred in Tajkan village of Gershak district due to heavy rain.
According to him, the dead include a woman and a child. A man was injured in the incident.
This comes as 10 people have died and six others have been injured as a result of the floods in Helmand province in the last one week.
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