Afghan Border Police personnel keep watch during an ongoing battle between Pakistani and Afghan border forces near Durand line at Spin Boldak in the southern province of Kandahar, May 5, 2017.
In case it does not stop, he said Pakistan reserves the right to respond to preserve its sovereignty and protect its civilians. The Pakistani officials made their visits despite former TTP spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan's revelations in the local media about the deadly nexus between RAW and NDS against Pakistan.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif issued a statement describing the Afghan firing as "unfortunate" and urged Kabul to put an end to cross-border attacks that threaten efforts to bring peace to Afghanistan. He accused Islamabad of using the census as a mask to hide the crossing of militants from Pakistan into Afghanistan.
"Anyone who tries to make Pakistan's territory disputed will face similar consequences", he said while speaking to reporters in the town of Chaman, adding that the border would remain closed until Afghanistan "changes behavior".
Pakistan shares a 2,200-kilometer (1,375 mile) long porous border with Afghanistan, and Friday's incident came as census workers entered the Killi Luqman village to carry out the census, which was last conducted in 1998 and which at the time recorded a national population of 180 million.
Afghan officials had confirmed the death of seven security personnel and some several civilians. This is where the conflict reportedly erupted on Friday when Pakistani security forces wished to conduct its ongoing census exercise.
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In response to the attack, Pakistan had closed its borders with Afghanistan at Chaman and Torkham on February 18 after a series of terrorist attacks in the country killed over 100 people. General Campbell in his testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee said that building up the Afghan military was "akin to building an airplane while in flight".
The so-called "Durand Line", a 2,400-kilometre (1,500-mile) frontier drawn by the British in 1896 and disputed by Kabul, has witnessed increased tension since Pakistan began trenching along it a year ago.
The border became particularly tense after the Army Public School massacre in Peshawar in December 2014, when Pakistan started pushing Afghan refugees out of the country.
"The DGMO Pakistan Army told his counterpart that we shall continue our work within our border". In 1896, the United Kingdom imposed a border, known today as the Durand Line.
Mirza further asked the Afghan DGMO that their forces should stay on their side of the border and defuse the situation.
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