Border forces can respond to Pakistan artillery shelling: MoD

A spokesman for the Ministry of Defense (MoD) Gen. Dawlat Waziri has told RFE’s Afghanistan service that the border forces do not need a permission to respond to the incursions.
He said they (bordre forces) have already been granted persmission to act and respond to the artilley shelling in a similar manner.
This comes as local officials in eastern Kunar province say the artillery shelling from the other side of Durand Line on Kunar province continue as dozens of artillery shells landed in three districts of the province late on Tuesday night.
Provincial police spokesman Faridullah Dehqan says three districts of Kunar came under heavy artillery shelling that left at least on person wounded.
Dehqan further added that more than 60 artille shells have been fired on Khas Kunar, Dangam, and Sarkano districts in the latest wave of cross-border shelling.
The district administrative chief of Dangam Mohammad Rahman Danish said Tuesday that more than 200 rounds of artillery shells landed on Dangam district late on Sunday night.
He said the shelling started late on Sunday night and continued for several hours causing damages to the properties of the local residents.