By Islamuddin Sajid
ISLAMABAD (AA) - Border clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan continued on Wednesday.
The latest clashes were reported along the border in the Spin Boldak area of Afghanistan in Kandahar province, which borders southwestern Balochistan province in Pakistan.
The Pakistani army in an official statement claimed that the Afghan Taliban launched a pre-dawn attack at four locations in Balochistan.
The statement claimed that eight posts, including six tanks, “were destroyed” while “25-30 Afghan Taliban and Fitna Al Khwarij (Tehreek-e-Taliban) fighters were suspected to have been killed.”
However, Zabihullah Mujahid, the chief spokesman of the Afghan interim administration, said 12 Afghan people were killed and over 100 others injured during the clashes.
He claimed that the Afghan side had allegedly captured a tank from the Pakistani side in “counterattacks.”
The Pakistani army also claimed that the Afghan Taliban “destroyed Pak-Afghan Friendship Gate on their side.”