Pakistan lodges strong protest with Afghan government

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has taken a serious note of the incident involving 29 Pakistanis who were returning from Afghanistan and were badly beaten en-route reportedly by Afghan forces despite having valid travel documents/passports.

The Afghan Charge d’ Affairs was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Saturday and a strong protest was lodged, seeking an investigation into the incident and action against those responsible.

The Afghan government was also asked to take appropriate measures to avoid recurrence of such incidents in future, said a statement of the Foreign Office here.

A similar protest was lodged by the Ambassador of Pakistan in Kabul with the Afghan government.