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Afghan Taliban Says Its Forces Struck Targets In Pakistan As Cross-Border Clashes Erupt

28th December, 2024 · admin

By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi and RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal December 28, 2024 Afghanistan’s Taliban-led government said Taliban forces targeted what it claimed were “centers and hideouts for malicious elements” it said were involved in a recent attack in Afghanistan, as an upsurge of cross-border fighting continues. The statement from the Taliban’s Defense Ministry followed reports of deadly

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Posted in Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Security, Taliban | Tags: Durand Line, Taliban blowback, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan |
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Clashes Between Islamic Emirate-Pakistani Forces Leave 2 Dead, 11 Injured

8th September, 2024 · admin

Tolo News: As a result of clashes between the forces of the Islamic Emirate and the Pakistani military, two people, including a woman, have been killed, and eleven others injured. Local residents reported that since Wednesday evening of last week, intermittent clashes between the Islamic Emirate forces and the Pakistani military have been ongoing in

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Posted in Civilian Injuries and Deaths, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Security, Taliban | Tags: Durand Line, Khost, Taliban blowback, Taliban Security Failure |
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Taliban Defense Minister inspects new outposts along ‘Imaginary’ Durand Line in Kunar

16th August, 2024 · admin

Khaama: The Taliban’s Ministry of Defense stated that on Friday, Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid visited newly established outposts along the “Durand Line” in the Dangam district of Kunar province. The Taliban do not recognize the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, referring to it as the “imaginary line.” Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Taliban | Tags: Durand Line, Kunar, Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob |
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Pakistan Bans Entry Of Afghan Truckers Without Visas, Documents Through Torkham

1st August, 2024 · admin

By RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal August 1, 2024 Pakistani authorities have banned the entry of Afghan drivers through the Torkham border crossing as of August 1 unless they have passports and visas. Torkham, a critical trade route between Pakistan and Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, had been reopened by Pakistan in January after a 10-day closure prompted by Islamabad’s imposing

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Posted in Economic News, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Durand Line, Torkham |
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Pakistan Reopens Key Border Point With Afghanistan After Months Of Closure

24th July, 2024 · admin

RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal: Pakistan after a nine-month closure that resulted in financial losses and rising anger on both sides. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Economic News, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Durand Line |
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Pakistan Reopens Key Border Point With Afghanistan Following Complaints

21st July, 2024 · admin

By RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal July 21, 2024 Pakistan on July 21 reopened a key border crossing point with Afghanistan after a nine-month closure following complaints by residents. Pakistan in October closed the Chaman-Spin Boldak border that runs through Pashtun communities, ending the century-old Easement Rights, which had allowed certain communities along the 19th-century Durand Line border

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Posted in Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Durand Line, Pashtuns in Pakistan |
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Intense Border Clashes Between Taliban, Pakistan Cause Deaths, Destruction

17th May, 2024 · admin

By RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi and Abubakar Siddique May 17, 2024 At least one Taliban border guard and one Pakistani soldier have been killed and several more injured in the latest border clashes between them. The clashes continued into the early hours of May 17 after they first erupted five days ago. Pakistani and Taliban forces

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Posted in Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Taliban | Tags: Durand Line, Taliban blowback |
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Stanikzai: Pakistan Did Not Exist When Durand Line Drawn

24th February, 2024 · admin

Tolo News: “The Durand Line is an imaginary line, and there is no issue between Pakistan and us in this respect. The issue is that the British at the time drew this line in accordance with an agreement they had made with Abdul Rahman Khan. Whatever Pakistani officials say about this is unacceptable because it

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Posted in History, Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Durand Line, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanakzai |
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The Taliban Want a Piece of Pakistan

20th February, 2024 · admin

FP: Afghanistan’s government doesn’t recognize a 130-year-old border—and its local affiliates are causing havoc in the Pakistani borderlands… Dawar said the turning of the Taliban tables on Pakistan “was predictable.” The Taliban “are now a threat to Central Asia. They are now a threat to Iran, to Pakistan, and to even China. All of them

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Posted in Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Political News, Security, Taliban | Tags: Durand Line, Taliban blowback, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan |
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Pakistan Firmly Asserts Durand Line Sovereignty in Face of Taliban’s Stark Rejection

19th February, 2024 · admin

Khaama: In a vivid manifestation of escalating tensions, Asif Durrani, Pakistan’s special envoy to Afghanistan, has emphatically dismissed the Taliban’s contentious stance on the Durand Line, underscoring Islamabad’s rigid position on the historic border dispute. This sharp exchange marks a significant heightening in the long-standing discord over the demarcation that has been a point of

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Posted in Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, Political News, Taliban | Tags: Durand Line, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanakzai, Taliban blowback |
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