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KABUL: The international community, fearing possible damage to its relations with Pakistan, is avoiding intervention on the issue of cross-border attacks into Afghanistan, analysts believe.
They say Islamabad -- through incessant shelling of Afghan border villages by its security forces -- wants to prove its importance in the region and to portray the government in Kabul as weak-kneed.
Officials put at eight the number of civilians killed so far in the incursions. At least 20 others have been injured and hundreds of families displaced due to missile, rocket and artillery attacks.
Civil Society Coordination Centre spokesman Hayatullah Hayat, civil society activist Malalai Shinwari and political analyst Mohammad Hassan Haqyar expressed their views about the cross-border attacks during a roundtable.
The weekly radio and TV programme -- Your Voice -- is a joint initiative of the Killid Media Group and its partners -- Pajhwok Afghan News and Saba Media Organistaion -- within the newly-created Afghanistan Media Consortium.
Shinwari said the Afghanistan problem had morphed into a regional issue that was also affecting Pakistan. She called the cross-border attacks a warning to the US that if it mounted pressure on Pakistan, it would create anarchy in Afghanistan.
Another reason behind the assaults is to show the world that terrorists are not only operating in Pakistan, but they are also active across the border, according to Shinwari, who highlighted contradictory views about the shelling. “The governor of Kunar is not on the same wavelength with interior and defence ministries.”
She claimed the Afghan government was divided along ethnic and racial lines, with each party working for its own interest. “This situation is paving the ground for foreign countries to interfere in our internal affairs.”
Hayat believed Pakistan was in a bid to project the weakness of the Karzai administration -- despite the international community’s support. “Pakistan wants to tell the world that in Afghanistan, it can do everything it wants to.”
At the same time, he added, Islamabad was trying to convince the world to acknowledge the significant role it could play in bringing stability to Afghanistan. But the neighbour should realise that today’s Afghanistan was different and taming it was no easy task, he warned.
“The international community is silent on cross-border assaults because it is avoiding new tension with Pakistan after the 2014 troop pullout,” the Civil Society Coordination Centre spokesman said.
Political commentator Haqyar said Islamabad’s key aim was to prove the point that terrorists existed and conducted operations on both sides of the frontier. The Duran Line had huge importance to Pakistan which wanted Afghanistan to formally recognise the border, he added.
“The US and NATO interfere only in matters that are in their interest. They would not intervene on the question of cross-border attacks because it has nothing to do with their interest,” the analyst remarked. (PAN)

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