In brief
Two Afghans were killed and two wounded after Pakistani troops fired near the Torkham border in eastern Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province, according to a provincial government office. Afghan Defence Ministry says the incident followed a series of drone attacks by Pakistani forces in border sites, prompting retaliatory strikes that reportedly caused Pakistani casualties. The skirmishes have continued since February, with each side accusing the other of initiating hostilities.
Kabul, Oct. 29 — At least two people were killed and two others wounded when Pakistani troops opened fire on Afghan soil near the Torkham border crossing in the Khanabad area of Nangarhar province, an Afghan provincial government office said on Thursday.
The office’s statement confirms that the shooting took place on Wednesday and that the casualties were Afghan civilians or border personnel, however it did not detail how the firefight began.
Afghan Defence Ministry officials, quoted in the same Xinhua report, said that the incident followed a series of four drone attacks by Pakistani forces on a border commissariat and adjacent security installations in neighboring Paktika province earlier that day, and that Afghan forces had carried out retaliatory strikes in response. Those retaliatory operations were said to have inflicted casualties among Pakistani troops, but Pakistani sources have not independently confirmed those claims.
Both sides have accused each other of initiating cross‑border hostilities that began in February, with intermittent aerial strikes and skirmishes resulting in casualties and material damage on both sides. The latest incident adds to the prolonged standoff along the Afghan–Pakistan frontier.
