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Deadly Pakistan–Afghanistan Border Clashes Intensify Around Chaman and Kurram

Competing accounts, closed crossings, mounting risk signal a volatile standoff.

Armed Taliban security personnel keep guard near the closed gate of the zero point border crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan at Spin Boldak district in Kandahar province on October 12, 2025.
A line of cargo trucks bound for Pakistan is stranded on the Afghan side of the Torkham border crossing, which remained closed after clashes, in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Wahidullah Kakar)
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Overview

  • Overnight fighting centered on the Spin Boldak–Chaman sector left more than a dozen Afghan civilians dead and over 100 injured, according to Taliban officials, while Pakistan reported several civilian injuries on its side.
  • Pakistan’s military said it repelled coordinated assaults at four points near Spin Boldak and in Kurram, killing 15–20 fighters in Kandahar and about 30 further north, and destroying Taliban tanks, posts and a TTP training site.
  • Kabul accused Pakistan of initiating the attacks and claimed to have seized Pakistani posts, weapons and tanks; Islamabad rejected those assertions as false and said its positions held.
  • Border crossings remain shut, cross-border trade is stalled, and residents reported shelling and displacement in frontier districts, with local authorities suspending some services.
  • Casualty claims remain contested from earlier clashes, with Kabul saying it killed 58 Pakistani soldiers and Islamabad reporting 23 troops lost and more than 200 Taliban-linked fighters killed as regional partners urge restraint.