Pakistan troops, Taliban exchange fire along Durand Line as fencing continues

The Pakistani security forces and Afghan Taliban are still swapping fire across the Durand Line. The rearmost incident took place in townlets like Ganjgaal, Sarkano and Kunar-in the Bajaur area-on Friday. Colorful reports in the original media and vids twittered by intelligencers show both the sides firing at each other According to some reports, the blasting continued for 30 twinkles on Friday autumn.

The blasting started after a gun, reportedly belonging to the Taliban, shot dead two Pak dogfaces where a border hedge was being installed. The Pakistani side fired at border townlets in response, egging retribution from the Afghan side Heavy clashes took place in the area, with a number of shells and ordnance hitting the townies, the original reports further said.

Meanwhile, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Saturday claimed responsibility for the December 19 attack on civil minister Shibli Faraz in Darra Adam Khel in which his motorist and sentry were injured The rearmost border clashes come amid claims from both Taliban and Pakistan that they’ve resolved the recent row over border fencing by agreeing that farther work on the design that led to a tense situation would be done through agreement.

A elderly functionary, who spoke to a group of intelligencers on Friday, said it had been decided at a elderly position that fencing- related issues would in the future be dealt with through collective agreement The functionary, still, didn’t exactly specify at which position the addresses between Pakistan and the de facto Afghan government were held after Wednesday’s incident in which Taliban fighters disintegrated border fencing and took down spools of acerbic line, the Dawn review reported.

Pakistan has been protecting the 2600-kilometer-long border with Afghanistan since 2017 to end terrorist infiltration and smuggling despite veritably violent opposition from the neighbouring country, the report said Besides the construction of a hedge, the design also includes the construction of border posts and castles, and the caregiving of new bodies of Frontier Corps, the civil force that guards the border The functionary said 90 per cent of the fencing had been completed Fencing has been a contentious issue in Pakistan-Afghanistan ties because the Afghans dispute the border discrimination done during the social period.

While Afghan Pashtuns define their country borders on base of Durand Line, Pakistan is opposed to this discrimination The differences over the status of the border have been so violent that they’ve in the history redounded in several fatal clashes between the colors of the two countries.