Sunday, August 12, 2012
Kabul (BNA) Hundreds of people staged a demonstration in Khost city yesterday to protest over artillery shelling by Pakistani military on the eastern parts of the country including Kunar and Nuristan provinces over the past couple of months which have left dozens of people dead and injured.
While chanting anti-Pakistan slogans and condemning the rocket firing from Pakistan called on government to check the Pakistani incursion; otherwise the people would take action.
In resolution readout at eh end of the demonstration, the artillery shelling from Pakistan was described as open incursion calling on the international community to stop Pakistani intervention.
At least 2500 rockets fired by Pakistani military have slammed into Kunar and Nuristan over the past couple of months leaving some 100 people dead and injured.
