Afghans take to streets over Pak incursions

Yesterday, President Hamid Karzai said he’d talk soon with Musharraf about growing tensions between the two countries. He also dispatched government officials to the eastern border to investigate reports Pakistani forces had crossed the frontier and soldiers from the two countries had exchanged fire.

Pakistani officials said yesterday that Pakistani security forces exchanged mortar- and machine gun-fire over the weekend with suspected Afghan tribesmen near the Pakistani town of Kudakhel Kandao, in a tribal region northwest of Peshawar.