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Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban administration agreed to a 48-hour cease-fire starting at 6:00 p.m. local time Wednesday, Islamabad announced, following the outbreak of renewed fighting between the neighbors.
Both Pakistan and Afghanistan will make sincere efforts, through dialogue, to find a positive solution to the complex yet resolvable issue, Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
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.”
Discord between two rebel groups in a rebel-controlled town in Chin state of western Myanmar has turned into fierce fighting, forcing thousands of residents, including Christians, to flee their homes.
Clashes between the Mara Defense Force (MDF) and Chinland Defense Force–Mara (CDF-Mara) intensified in Thantlang township since Aug. 3, local sources confirmed.
Thai and Cambodian soldiers have clashed along the border between their countries in a major escalation that left at least 14 people dead, mostly civilians. The two sides fired small arms, artillery and rockets, and Thailand also launched airstrikes.
Fighting took place in at least six areas on Thursday, according to Thai Defense Ministry spokesperson Surasant Kongsiri, a day after a land mine explosion along the border wounded five Thai soldiers and led Bangkok to withdraw its ambassador from Cambodia and expel Cambodia’s envoy to Thailand.
Fresh fighting between rival Chin resistance groups in Myanmar’s Falam Township has reignited instability along the porous India-Myanmar border, sparking a wave of refugee inflows into India’s north-eastern state of Mizoram and escalating regional security concerns.