In a sharp escalation of border tensions, Afghanistan’s Ministry of Defense claimed that Taliban-led forces had captured multiple Pakistani Army outposts along the Durand Line, including in the volatile Kunar and Helmand provinces.

Sources told TOLOnews that at least five Pakistani soldiers were killed and two others injured in the ongoing border clashes. Intense fighting has been reported in Bahramcha district’s Shakij, Bibi Jani, and Salehan areas, as well as across Paktia’s Aryub Zazi district, where gunfire continues to echo along the frontier.

“Taliban forces have captured several outposts from the Pakistani Army across the Durand Line in Kunar and Helmand provinces,” an Afghan Defense official said in a statement, adding that clashes were ongoing in Shakij, Bibi Jani, and Salehan a

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