For the second time in a week, Taliban and Pakistani troops clashed at the Durand Line border after troops tried to extend a barbed wire fence in Afghanistan.
According to local media reports, the clashes took place on Thursday in Afghanistan’s southeastern province of Nimroz in the Charborjak region.
Pakistani troops reportedly tried to extend the border fence 10 kilometers to Afghanistan, prompting Taliban crews to cut down ropes.
On December 22, the two armies clashed in the eastern province of Nangarhar over a fence.
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According to Afghanistan-based news agency Khama Press (KP), Taliban militants cut through the barbed wire rigged by the Pakistani security forces and brought them to Afghanistan.
Video of the incident was widely circulated, showing Afghan soldiers threatening their Pakistani counterparts with tragic consequences if another attempt was made to erect piercing ropes at the border.
Remember
The Durand Line — a 2,600-mile [2,600 km] international border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, often sees occasional clashes between the two armies.
Afghan governments and the new Taliban regime have often argued that Pakistan has closed its borders, saying they have never acknowledged its legitimacy.
In September, this was vaccinated by the Taliban’s top spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, following the formation of the ruling Taliban government.
The border was named after a British government official, Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, who signed an agreement with Amir Abdur Rahman, then Afghan governor, on November 12, 1893, to establish an international border between British India and Afghanistan.