SAA event in Balochistan, Gaznali, Nushki District area, Pakistan on Mon 19th August 2024

A Frontier Corps (FC) trooper, identified as Subedar Tariq, was killed in an armed clash with Afghan forces in Gaznali area on the Pak-Afghan border in Nushki District of Balochistan on August 19, reports Dawn. “The Frontier Corps personnel and Afghan forces exchanged heavy fire at the border in Nushki area,” Nushki deputy commissioner Amjad Hussian Soomro said, adding that one personnel of Noshki militia, a wing of Frontier Corps, was killed in the exchange of fire. However, a senior FC personnel requesting anonymity, said that Afghan forces opened fire on the FC personnel when they went to Gaznali check post after receiving reports about the damage of to the fence erected by Pakistan to check infiltration of militants and illegal Afghans into Pakistan from Afghanistan. There was no report of casualties on the Afghanistan side of the border.