Another Pakistani Soldier Dead in Border Clashes with Afghanistan
Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said Afghan Taliban forces launched physical assaults across dozens of positions in the southwestern Balochistan and northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces, all of which Pakistani forces successfully repelled.
One soldier from the Frontier Corps "gave the ultimate sacrifice while defending the motherland," Tarar said in a statement posted on US social media company X.
The mounting casualties reflect the ferocity of a conflict that has shown no sign of abating since last Thursday. Of the 85 confirmed dead, 13 Pakistani soldiers and one civilian have been killed on Islamabad's side, while 13 Afghan soldiers and 58 civilians have perished on Kabul's. One Pakistani soldier remains unaccounted for.
The two sides have exchanged starkly divergent casualty figures. Tarar claimed Tuesday that 502 Afghan Taliban operatives and suspected militants have been killed — with hundreds more wounded — in airstrikes and ground clashes since Thursday. Kabul, meanwhile, asserts that 56 Pakistani soldiers were killed in the border fighting. Neither government's figures could be independently verified.
Military actions have escalated sharply on both fronts. The Afghan Defense Ministry announced it had shot down an unmanned aerial vehicle in the Abchakan area of Logar province. Pakistan, in turn, said its air force struck a major ammunition depot and drone storage facility in Jalalabad, as well as the Khogani base in Nangarhar province, according to state-run Pakistan Television.
Cross-border tensions between Islamabad and Kabul have been simmering for months over Pakistan's allegations that Afghan soil is being used as a launchpad for militant attacks — accusations the Taliban government has consistently denied.
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