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A Taliban spokesman said on Tuesday that fighting has stopped on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border after Pakistani airstrikes sparked skirmishes. “The situation is calm, the fighting has stopped,” the Taliban government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid was quoted as saying by AFP.
On Monday, Pakistan carried out strikes in the border areas in Khost and Paktika provinces in eastern Afghanistan’s Khost and Paktika provinces.
Pakistan maintains that it targeted militants it said were responsible for a recent attack on its soil but Taliban said the bombardment led to deaths of eight civilians, all women and children.
The Taliban-led Afghanistan’s defence ministry said its border forces retaliated by targeting Pakistani military posts along the border with “heavy weapons”. A senior police officer in the Pakistani border district of Kurram told AFP that Afghan security forces struck the area with mortar shells.
“As a result, three security posts and five houses of civilians suffered partial damage, with nine individuals, including four security personnel wounded. Silence prevails on the border today, and security forces have reinforced their positions,” the officer told AFP.
Border tensions between the two countries have steadily escalated since the Taliban government seized power in 2021.
Islamabad has accused Kabul’s Taliban government of harbouring militant fighters, allowing them to strike on Pakistani soil with impunity.
Kabul has denied the allegations.
Gun battles also regularly erupt over the construction of checkpoints along the disputed border and trade crossings are closed over immigration disagreements.
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