Pakistan, Taliban trade blame over deadly border crossfire

By AP 14 September 2022, 2:46 pm

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A Pakistani soldier stands guard at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border crossing point in Chaman on August 20, 2021. (AFP)

Afghan and Pakistani authorities blame each other for an overnight clash at the border that caused casualties on both sides.

In a statement, the Taliban says that Afghan authorities tried to stop Pakistani forces from building a checkpoint close to the border in eastern Paktia province’s Dand-e Patan district, but the Pakistani forces opened fire.

Pakistan’s military says in a statement that three soldiers were killed in the country’s northwest by militant fire from across the Afghan border last night. The attack hit a border security post in Kurram, a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Both Pakistan and Afghanistan accuse each other of providing sanctuaries to their enemy insurgents — something both sides deny.