Afghanistan-Pakistan border clashes live updates: Pak strikes Kandahar after fresh border fighting

Afghanistan-Pakistan border clashes live: As fighting continued on the borders, a few people were injured when protesters clashed with police during a demolition and clean-up operation by Pakistan authorities in the Afghan Basti (village) or refugee camp on the outskirts of Karachi on Wednesday.

The drive is being carried out now because some 8000 Afghans who were residing in the camp had returned home and left behind the concrete structures, including homes and shops, which are now being taken over by land grabbers, a PTI report quoted Senior Superintendent of Police West, Tariq Mastoi.

Afghanistan-Pakistan border clashes live: Wednesday’s border fighting comes after the two countries clashed last weekend as Afghanistan launched revenge strikes on Pakistan, responding to an attack in Afghani capital Kabul that the country blamed the latter for.

In the weekend border clashes, Afghanistan claimed its strikes killed 58 Pakistani soldiers, while Pakistan said the toll was 23, adding that it managed to kill more than 200 Taliban and affiliated troops in counterfire. The border crossings between Afghanistan and Pakistan were also shut on Sunday, October 12, amid tensions.

Afghanistan-Pakistan border clashes live: Pakistan carried out an airstrike in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province on Wednesday, Reuters reported, citing Afghan and Pakistan officials, as fresh fighting erupted between the neighbours.

Afghanistan-Pakistan border clashes live updates: Over 50, including troops and civilians from both sides, were killed in fresh clashes along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border that erupted Tuesday night and continued on Wednesday, reports said, citing security officials.

Pakistan’s military said two assaults by Afghanistan’s Taliban on major border posts in the southwest and northwest were repelled, with about 20 Taliban fighters killed, according to AFP news agency.

The Pakistan military said about 30 more were likely killed in overnight clashes along its northwest border.

Meanwhile, Reuters quoted an official, not mentioning of which side, as saying that six Pakistani paramilitary troops were dead in the fresh fighting.

Taliban said 15 civilians were killed. It was not known whether it was over and above the toll Pakistan gave.