Clashes are renewed. Dozens of deaths on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan

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Clashes are renewed. Dozens of deaths on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan

Dozens of soldiers and civilians were killed in renewed border confrontations between Pakistanand Afghanistan on Wednesday, according to what officials from both sides of the border said, as the clashes entered their second week.

Violence has erupted between the two neighboring countries since the explosions witnessed by Afghanistanlast week, two of which occurred in Kabul. Pakistan was held responsible for it.

Islamabad accuses Afghanistan of harboring armed groups led by Pakistani Taliban, something Kabul denies, and the Taliban government on Saturday launched attacks across the southern border, to which Islamabad vowed to respond forcefully.

Accusing the Pakistani Army

In the recent violence, the Pakistani army accused the Afghan Taliban of attacking two border points in the southwest and northwest of the country.

The army said in a statement. "Unfortunately, the attack was carried out in an area that includes villages divided by borders, while disregarding the fate of civilians".

He stated that the two attacks were repelled, while 20 Taliban fighters were killed in attacks near Spin Boldak on the Afghan side of the border in the southern province of Kandahar on Wednesday morning.

He indicated that 30 others are believed to have been killed in the night confrontations along the northwestern Pakistani border.

Afghan Taliban

From For its part, the Afghan Taliban movement reported that 15 civilians were killed and dozens injured in the attacks that took place near Spin Boldak, and that "Two or three" Among its fighters were also killed.

The spokesman for the Afaniyya Information Department in the Spin Boldak region, Ali Muhammad Haqmal, reported that civilians were killed as a result of mortar shells.

Abdul Jan Barak, an official in the Spin Boldak region hospital, confirmed to Agence France-Presse the number of deaths, adding that more than 80 women and children were injured.

Light and heavy weapons

The spokesman for the Taliban government, Zabihullah Mujahid, accused the Pakistani forces of carrying out new attacks using weapons. "Light and heavy" In the region.

Mujahid reported in a statement that one hundred civilians were injured, adding that calm had returned to the region after the killing of Pakistani soldiers, the control of sites and the seizure of weapons.

But the Pakistani army described all of this as "Blatant lies"Pakistan did not announce the death toll in the recent clashes, but it reported last week that 23 of its soldiers were killed in the first clashes.