More than a dozen Afghan civilians were killed and over 100 others were wounded as renewed fighting between Pakistan and Afghanistan broke out along their shared border early Wednesday, officials said.

The countries have traded fire along the border since Saturday, when dozens were killed across multiple border regions.

Afghanistan claimed to have killed 58 Pakistani soldiers in overnight operations in retaliation for what it called repeated violations of Afghan territory and airspace.

Pakistan’s army said 23 troops were killed.

The fighting on Wednesday erupted before dawn, according to officials on both sides.

Pakistan TV, the main state-owned television station, reported later in the day that Afghanistan was seeking a ceasefire on the border near the village of Chaman where the fighting was concentrated.

Pakistani security officials and state-run media accused Afghan troops of “unprovoked fire” that was repulsed in Kurram, a district of northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Security officials and television reports said Pakistan’s military overnight killed 30 Afghan Taliban fighters near Kurram in Afghanistan’s Khost province, destroyed a large training facility in Afghanistan used by the Pakistani Taliban.

Hafiz Hakmal, a Taliban official in Spin Boldak, a district in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province which lies opposite Pakistan’s southwestern border town of Chaman, said:

“The fighting began at around 4 am early morning and mujahideen of the Islamic emirate Afghanistan and the soldiers of the interior ministry responded vigorously, and with high moral, and the mujahideen have killed many enemy soldiers and captured many of their posts.”

Pakistan’s military rejected the Afghan claim Wednesday, saying in a statement that the fighting along the Chaman border was orchestrated by the Taliban in Afghanistan “through divided villages in the area, with no regard for the civilian population."

The attack was repulsed by Pakistani forces, which killed between 15 and 20 Afghan Taliban and wounded many others in Spin Boldak, the military said.

On Tuesday, Pakistan's military said the Afghan Taliban worked with the Pakistani Taliban in an attempted assault on Pakistani border posts in the Kurram district but the attacks were repulsed, causing “heavy losses” to Afghan positions.

Witnesses in Chaman said they saw mortars falling near Pakistani villages and some families were seen evacuating.

“In our village shells and bullets started hitting people's houses. A young boy from our village was also wounded in this," said Haji Sadam, a Chaman resident.

"Our request is for both our government of Pakistan and the Taliban fighters to immediately stop this war, because Pashtun people live on both side of the border," he added.

The clashes on the long and porous border stopped temporarily Sunday following appeals from Saudi Arabia and Qatar, but border crossings remain closed.

The renewed fighting underscores the simmering tension between the neighbors. The Taliban government on Friday accused Pakistan of carrying out airstrikes in Kabul and in an eastern Afghanistan market.

Pakistani state media said Tuesday night that the military targeted hideouts of the Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, which is a separate but allied group of the Afghan Taliban.

The latest attacks in Kurram were carried out jointly by Afghan forces and TTP fighters and Pakistan destroyed several Afghan posts and inflicted heavy losses in response, state media said.

Pakistan accuses the Taliban government of harboring the TTP, which has carried out numerous deadly attacks inside Pakistan.

Kabul denies the allegation, saying it does not allow its territory to be used for operations against other countries.

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