Pakistan says at least 13 Afghan Taliban personnel are killed in overnight fighting along the countries’ southwestern border. Pakistan attributes the deaths to its forces during an exchange described as a border clash.
Afghan officials dispute Pakistan’s account. Kabul denies the claim that Taliban personnel were killed in the fighting, without providing an alternative casualty figure in the reports provided. The two sides therefore present conflicting versions of what happened overnight, including disagreement over both the number of fatalities and whether the reported deaths occurred.
Both outlets frame the incident as a development in the wider context of cross-border tensions and militant activity affecting the Afghanistan–Pakistan frontier. However, the sources provided do not include independent confirmation of casualties or further operational details, leaving the scale and outcome of the clash unclear pending additional information.
