QuettaArtillery and gunfire across the border killed six Pakistani civilians and an Afghan soldier on Sunday, according to officials on both sides of the border.
The Pakistani military said the Afghan border forces had begun “indiscriminate and indiscriminate firing of heavy weapons, including artillery/mortars” at the Chaman border crossing, which connects Pakistan’s western province of Baluchistan and Afghanistan’s southern province of Kandahar. Stated.
The Pakistani army said in a statement that Afghan fires had killed six civilians and wounded 17 on the Pakistani side, prompting Pakistani forces to retaliate.
Afghan security sources said clashes began after Pakistani forces demanded that Afghan forces stop building new checkpoints on their side of the border.
Kandahar police spokesman Hafiz Saber said one Afghan soldier was killed and 10 others, including three civilians, were injured.
A senior Afghan government official in Kandahar, Noor Ahmad, told Reuters that the situation had returned to normal after the two sides held talks.
The busy Afghan border crossing in Chaman, used for trade and transit, was closed for several hours before reopening, officials from both sides said. The crossing was closed for several days last month after a similar clash. – Reuters
