Afghan-Pakistan Border Tensions Remain as Clashes Continue

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Afghan-Pakistan Border Tensions Remain as Clashes Continue

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Border tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan showed no sign of easing down on Saturday as troops of the two neighbors continued exchange of fire across the border,a military commander in eastern Afghanistan said.

Abdul Zahir, commander of Afghan border troops in the eastern border province of Nangarhar, said that armed clashes between the two sides lasted for about one hour near a border post in Yegobi district of the province, about 150 kilometers from Kabul.

The Afghan border troops in the end warded off the offensives by Pakistan troops, the commander was quoted by state-run Bakhtar Information Agency (BIA) as saying.

Clashes across the Afghan-Pakistan border in recent weeks sent bilateral relations to a multi-year low last week when thousands of Afghans took to the street in Kabul, protesting against the alleged border incursions by Pakistan troops.

Pakistan lodged a formal protest and threatened to close down its embassy in the Afghan capital on Tuesday after some angry students attacked the embassy with stones and stormed into its compound.

After Afghan President Hamid Karzai made a telephone apology tohis Pakistani counterpart Pervez Musharraf for the mob rampage, Pakistan has agreed to reopen the embassy after necessary repairing of its damaged property.

Karzai has also promised to Musharraf that the Afghan government would pay compensation for the physical loss incurred by the embassy and bring those responsible for the attacks to justice.

Three students were arrested for their links with the violence agaisnt the embassy, Afghan authorities said on Saturday.

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