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Days After Pak Air Strikes, Soldier Killed In Clashes With Afghan Troops

December 28, 2024 admin

Peshawar: A Pakistani paramilitary soldier was killed and seven others wounded in cross-border exchanges of fire with Afghanistan’s forces, a security source said Saturday, while hundreds of Afghans protested against the deadly air strikes that sparked the clashes. Sporadic fighting, including with heavy weaponry, erupted overnight between border forces on the frontier between Khyber Pakhtunkhwa…

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44,000 Afghans in Pakistan waiting for relocation to Western nations: Pakistan government

July 11, 2024 admin

Police officers, along with workers from the National Database and Registration Authority, check the identity cards of Afghan citizens during a door-to-door search and verification drive for undocumented Afghan nationals, in an Afghan Camp on the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Pakistan said on July 11 that it was hosting at…

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Fighting halted on Afghanistan-Pakistan border after skirmishes: Taliban

March 19, 2024 admin

Fighting has stopped on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border after Pakistani air strikes sparked skirmishes, a Taliban government spokesman said on March 19. “The situation is calm, the fighting has stopped,” Taliban government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told AFP. Pakistan carried out strikes in the border areas in Khost and Paktika provinces in Afghanistan early on March 18….

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