ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Prime Minister Mohammad Khan Junejo warned today Pakistan would not tolerate incursions by Afghan warplanes and said the air force was on alert after raids that killed 81 people and injured more than 250 in refugee camps this week.
Junejo said 'constant escalations' in bombing raids and explosions in areas bordering Afghanistan had forced his country to take 'all precautionary measures.'
He said the air force was on alert and would intercept any aircraft that attempted to enter Pakistani airspace.
The official English-language Pakistan Times newspaper said today 31 people were killed and 50 injured in attacks Friday by Afghan MiG warplanes on two Afghan refugee camps near the city of Parachinar in the North-West Frontier province.
The newspaper said 30 people died and 39 were injured at the Matasangar refugeee camp and reported one death and 11 injuries at the Khardand refugee camp.
The raids Friday came as the Pakistani government expressed outrage over 'barbarous and wanton' bombing raids carried out Thursday against two villages near the Afghan border. Fifty people died and more than 200 others were injured in those attacks.
In Geneva, Pakistani Foreign Minister Sahabzada Yaqub Khan Friday accused Afghanistan of deliberately compromising negotiations in progress there for settlement of the Afghan civil war.
On Friday, six Afghan jets dropped 16 bombs on the Matasangar camp and fired several rockets, the Pakistani television network said. The dead included seven representatives of Pakistan's commissioner for Afghan refugees, the network reported.
Five minutes later, nine Afghan jets dropped 14 bombs on the Khardand camp, the network said.
The most seriously injured bombing victims were taken 80 miles east to Peshawar, capital of the border province and a major collecting point for the estimated 3.5 million Afghan refugees in Pakistan.
A government spokesman described as a 'heinous outrage' the attacks Thursday on the villages of Ghulam Khan and Saidgai, market centers in the Waziristan tribal territory south of the area bombarded Friday.
The tenth round of Afghan-Pakistani proximity talks - representatives of the two countries negotiate indirectly through U.N. mediator Diego Cordovez -- began Wednesday.
The sticking point of negotiations, Cordovez has said, is the timetable for withdrawal of the estimated 115,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan. Moscow and Kabul link withdrawal to the cessation of U.S. and other aid to Afghan guerrillas based in Pakistan.
