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Pakistan closed borderline crossings with Afghanistan connected Sunday (October 12, 2025), Pakistani officials said, pursuing exchanges of occurrence betwixt the forces of the 2 countries overnight successful which Kabul claimed to person killed 58 Pakistani soldiers.
Afghan troops opened occurrence connected Pakistani borderline posts precocious connected Saturday (October 11, 2025), with the country's Ministry of Defence saying this was successful retaliation for Pakistani airstrikes successful Afghanistan earlier successful the week. Pakistan said that it had responded with weapon and artillery fire.
Afghanistan said it had killed 58 Pakistani soldiers, but gave nary details connected however it knew of the casualty figures. It besides said that 20 Afghan troops were killed oregon injured.
There was nary contiguous effect from Pakistan. Pakistani information officials said they had inflicted casualties connected Afghan unit but gave nary number.
Both nations claimed to person destroyed borderline posts of the different side. Pakistani information officials shared video footage, which they said showed Afghan posts being hit.
The speech of occurrence was mostly implicit connected Sunday (October 12, 2025) morning, Pakistani information officials said. But successful Pakistan's Kurram area, intermittent gunfire continued, according to section officials and residents.
Afghanistan's Ministry of Defence had antecedently said that their cognition had finished astatine midnight section time.
Kabul said connected Sunday (October 12, 2025) that it had halted attacks astatine the petition of Qatar and Saudi Arabia. The 2 Arab Gulf nations had released statements of interest astir the clashes.
"There is nary benignant of menace successful immoderate portion of Afghanistan's territory," the Taliban administration's spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, said Sunday (October 12, 2025). "The Islamic Emirate and the radical of Afghanistan volition support their onshore and stay resolute and committed successful this defence."
Ms. Mujahid said that warring was ongoing successful immoderate areas.
Islamabad accuses the Taliban medication of harbouring militants who onslaught Pakistan, a complaint that Kabul denies.
Border closure
Pakistan's 2 main borderline crossings with Afghanistan, astatine Torkham and Chaman, were closed connected Sunday (October 12, 2025), section officials said. At slightest 3 insignificant crossings, astatine Kharlachi, Angoor Adda and Ghulam Khan, were besides closed, section officials said.
There was nary contiguous remark from Kabul connected the closing of the border. Landlocked Afghanistan has a 2,600-km (1,600-mile) -long borderline with Pakistan.
The Pakistani airstrikes, not officially acknowledged by Islamabad, had targeted the person of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militant radical successful Kabul connected Thursday (October 9, 2025), according to a Pakistani information official. It is unclear if helium survived.
The TTP has been warring to overthrow the Islamabad authorities and regenerate it with a strict Islamic-led strategy of governance. Mr. Mujahid connected Sunday (October 12, 2025) denied that TTP fighters were allowed to run from Afghan soil.
