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Afghanistan said on Friday that it had carried out drone strikes on Pakistani military institutions as fighting continued between the two neighbours. Meanwhile, Pakistan said it shot down the drones using its anti-drone systems and reported no casualties.The Afghan army launched attacks late Thursday along the border in six provinces. She described this action as retaliation for Pakistani air strikes carried out on Sunday in the Afghan border areas, claiming that there was “conclusive evidence” that militants in Afghanistan were behind the recent wave of attacks and suicide bombings in Pakistan.
Former Afghan MP Maryam Suleiman Khel attacks Pakistan for killing civilians, and reiterates India’s position
Afghan authorities in Nangarhar province said that fighting was continuing in the Torkham border area on Friday morning.They also claimed that Pakistani mortar shells hit civilian areas, including a refugee camp that was evacuated overnight, with Pakistan’s Defense Minister, Khawaja Muhammad Asif, saying the country now considered itself in “open war” with Afghanistan. The two sides gave different casualty figures. The Afghan Ministry of Defense said that 55 Pakistani soldiers and eight Afghan soldiers were killed. Pakistani Information Minister Atallah Tarar said that two Pakistani soldiers were killed and three wounded. A spokesman for Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif denied allegations of captured Pakistani soldiers and said that more than 100 Afghan fighters had been killed.
The United Nations and a group of other countries, including Iran and China, urged the two countries to protect civilians and resolve their differences through diplomacy, and called for an immediate halt to the fighting.Earlier in October, border clashes between the two countries led to the death of dozens of soldiers. The fighting stopped after talks brokered by Türkiye, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, leading to a fragile ceasefire.
