Internet/Hyderabad, Oct 15 (Maxim News): Clashes between Pakistani and Afghan forces have killed and wounded dozens in a remote border area, as hostilities deepen between the two former allies.
Both sides accused the other of triggering the deadly violence overnight Tuesday that spanned southeastern Afghanistan’s Spin Boldak district and Pakistan’s Chaman district.
In a post on X, Afghan Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid accused Pakistani forces of initiating the border fighting by firing “light and heavy weapons’ at Afghanistan, killing 12 civilians and injuring more than 100.
Ali Mohammad Haqmal, a press spokesman in Spin Boldak district, put the civilian death toll at 15. The AFP news agency quoted a district hospital official as saying 80 women and children are among the wounded.
Mujahid claimed Afghani forces returned fire, killing “a large number of Pakistani soldiers, seizing Pakistani weapons and tanks and destroying Pakistani military installations.
But Pakistani authorities blamed the Afghan Taliban for first firing on a Pakistani military post and other areas near the border, causing the clashes that also wounded four of its own civilians. The Reutersnews agency quoted unnamed security officials as saying six Pakistani soldiers were killed in the violence, which one official said lasted around five hours.
Najibullah Khan, a resident of Pakistan’s Chaman district, said the clashes forced some people living near the border to flee. “People are in a very difficult situation. Shells are falling in people’s homes, he said. (Maxim News)
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