New Afghan, Pakistani border clashes follow deadly strikes
Al Jazeera
Both sides accused the other of unprovoked fire near their fraught frontier.
Afghan and Pakistani forces engaged in new clashes along their troubled border region, days after deadly air strikes on Afghanistan by Pakistan sent tensions soaring.
The two countries gave competing accounts of the violence on Tuesday, each accusing the other of triggering it.
Zabihullah Noorani, head of the Afghan information department in the eastern Nangarhar Province, said Pakistani forces carried out the first shots in the Shahkot area near the border. The fighting has since stopped, and there are no Afghan casualties, he added.
Pakistani government official Mosharraf Zaidi accused Afghan forces of firing unprovoked near the Torkham border area.
“Pakistan’s security forces responded immediately and effectively silencing the Taliban aggression,” Zaidi wrote in a post on X.
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