Residents from southern provinces of Afghanistan on Saturday condemned the rocket shelling by Pakistan in parts of Afghanistan’s provinces along the Durand Line – the de facto border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

They said they wanted an end to the bombings by Pakistan and called for serious investigations into the attacks.

“Pakistan should close the madrasas on its soil which are spreading extremism and also stop financing the madrasas if it really wanted peace and stability for the people of the two countries,” said Mohammad Rahman Qaderi, member of Paktika Provincial Council.

“Terrorists are always trained in Pakistan and are sent here [to Afghanistan]. Pakistan wants to divert the attention of the world in another direction,” said Hafizullah, another member of the council.

Meanwhile the residents said they condemn the attack at the shrine in Pakistan and demanded that Islamabad explain its rocket shelling of Afghan territory.

“Pakistan should arrest Taliban and other terrorists who are active in Pakistani and have offices there,” said Zmarak, a tribal elder in Paktika.

“The [religious] scholars who are in Pakistan will never act against interests of that country, but they send people under different names to Afghanistan and are using them here [in Afghanistan] as mujahid, Taliban or as Daesh,” said Mawlawi Khwaja-ul-Din Haqbayan, a religious scholar in the province.

The community condemnations come after at least 200 missiles from Pakistan landed in Kunar and Nangarhar provinces of Afghanistan over the past two days.