Clashes resumed on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday, with the deaths of at least five Pakistani soldiers and 25 militants reported so far, as delegations from both countries met to defuse the deadliest fighting in years between the former allies.

According to the Pakistani military, the militants tried to cross over from Afghanistan on Friday and Saturday in the Kurram and North Waziristan districts. Islamabad said the attempted infiltrations cast doubt on the intentions of the Afghan government to address “the issue of terrorism emanating from its soil".

Pakistani forces also claimed to seize a large cache of weapons and explosives during Sunday’s clashes. In Afghanistan , the Taliban government’s chief spokesman and the defence ministry did not immedia

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