Officials in Afghanistan claimed on Sunday to have killed 58 Pakistani soldiers during clashes overnight at the border between the two countries. Pakistan says it killed 200 Afghan Taliban soldiers and allies, Reuters reported.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said Afghan troops captured 25 army posts from Pakistan, wounding 30 soldiers in what the Defense Ministry called “retaliatory and successful operations.”
While Pakistani officials said they killed several Taliban fighters, they did not immediately confirm Afghan officials’ account of the fighting on the border, The New York Times reported. Both countries said they destroyed border posts on the other’s side.
Two major border crossings, Torkham and Chaman, and at least three minor crossings, Kharlachi, Angoor Adda and Ghulam Khan, were closed as of Sunday morning, Reuters reports.