Pakistan and Afghanistan claim killing dozens of the other side's troops in relentless fighting
ABC News
Pakistani and Afghan officials say their forces have launched multiple strikes at each other in cross-border clashes, with each side claiming to have killed dozens more enemy troops in what has been the deadliest fighting yet between the two neighbors
ISLAMABAD -- Pakistani and Afghan forces launched multiple strikes at each other in cross-border clashes Friday, and each side claimed to have killed dozens more enemy troops in what has been the deadliest fighting yet between the two neighbors — a conflict that Islamabad has declared to be an “open war.”
Repeated appeals from the international community for restraint had no effect as the fighting, now in its ninth day, continued unabated.
In Afghanistan, the Taliban-run government's Defense Ministry said its forces “destroyed numerous Pakistani military posts” along the border in Nangarhar, Kandahar, Kunar, Paktia, and Khost provinces, killing dozens of Pakistani soldiers.
Pakistani state-run media said the country's air force and ground troops inflicted heavy losses in latest strikes targeting Afghan forces and the Pakistani Taliban — a militant group known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP.
Islamabad said fighting is ongoing and that the military “inflicted heavy losses” on Afghanistan, without elaborating.
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