{"id":84706,"date":"2017-05-05T09:48:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T09:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/afghan-and-pakistani-forces-exchange-fire-in-spin-boldak\/"},"modified":"2017-05-05T09:48:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T09:48:24","slug":"afghan-and-pakistani-forces-exchange-fire-in-spin-boldak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/afghan-and-pakistani-forces-exchange-fire-in-spin-boldak\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan and Pakistani forces exchange fire in Spin Boldak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2017\/May\/5\/marz.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KANDAHAR CITY (SW): Afghanistan Border Police (ABP) opened fire on Pakistani forces in Luqman village near SpinBoldak-Chaman crossing point in the early hours of Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Security officials in Kandahar have said Pakistani forces tried to enter Afghan soil under pretext of census when Afghan forces opened fire.<\/p>\n<p>Ghorzang Aafridi, deputy police chief of Kandahar province, has said two Pakistani&nbsp;military tanks are destroyed due to this skirmish and the fight is continuing.<\/p>\n<p>Zia Durrani, provincial police deputy spokesman, said in this fight 3 ABP officers are wounded, but Pakistani casualties are unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Aasif Ghafori, Pakistan&rsquo;s military spokesman, acknowledged the incident in his official twitter account and said one civilian and 18 military including 4 Pakistan Border Police are injured.<\/p>\n<p>According to Al Jazeera, the attack on Friday left 33 people wounded and happened near the Chaman crossing point in Pakistan&#39;s Balochistan province prompting security forces to ask people to evacuate villages on the border.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses expressed that when the fight ensued the SpinkBoldak-Chaman crossing point closed for the passengers.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KANDAHAR CITY (SW): Afghanistan Border Police (ABP) opened fire on Pakistani forces in Luqman village near SpinBoldak-Chaman crossing point in the early hours of Friday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-84706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}