KABUL (SW) – The Islamic Emirate officials have rejected reports of border skirmish with the Turkmenistan forces.
Enamullah Samangani, a deputy spokesman for the Islamic Emirate, has denied that Islamic Emirate forces clashed with Turkmen forces in Jawzjan province on the border. “Reports of clashes on the Afghan-Turkmen border are inaccurate,” Samangani wrote on Twitter.
Samangani added that there are no problems between Afghanistan and Turkmenistan and they want to have positive and constructive relations with Turkmenistan and other countries.
Meanwhile, Hilal Balkhi, head of the Jawzjan Department of Information and Culture, told Salam Watandar yesterday that clashes had broken out between Islamic Emirate forces and Turkmen border forces in the Khomab district of the province.
Balkhi had said that Turkmen border forces had killed and beaten another Afghan civilian three days earlier, and that the IEA forces, who had gone to the border line in Khamab district this morning to check the security situation, had been repulsed by Turkmen border guards.
The head of the Jawzjan Department of Information and Culture added that the forces of the Islamic Emirate fired in response to the attack by the Turkmen border forces, and stressed that the forces of the Islamic Emirate were not harmed in the clash.
Earlier, the IEA border guards had clashed with Iranian and Pakistani border guards over border issues.
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