Pakistan on Wednesday sent Afghanistan a “strong demarche” in response to the terrorist attack that killed eight troops and injured numerous more in Bannu Cantonment two days prior.
The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) claimed in a statement on Tuesday that at least eight Pakistan Army personnel had accepted martyrdom as security forces successfully stopped a terrorist attack at Bannu Cantonment two days prior, killing all 10 insurgents.
The terrorists struck the Bannu Cantonment in the early hours of July 15, but the security forces personnel successfully prevented them from entering the facility. As a result, the militants crashed an explosive-filled car into the cantonment’s perimeter wall, according to the military’s media wing.
The deputy head of the Afghan embassy in Islamabad was called to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs today, according to a statement released by the Foreign Office, to convey Pakistan’s firm condemnation of the terrorist attack that left several dead on Bannu Cantonment.
According to the FO, the Afghan-based Hafiz Gul Bahadur gang was responsible for the terrorist strike. The statement further said that hundreds of civilians and law enforcement personnel had died in several terrorist strikes inside Pakistan as a result of the militant group and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
In an effort to “avoid the recurrence of such attacks against Pakistan using the territory of Afghanistan,” Islamabad urged Kabul to “fully investigate and take immediate, robust, and effective action against the perpetrators of the Bannu attack.”
