Overview
- MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal condemned attacks that killed Afghan civilians and reaffirmed India’s support for Afghanistan’s territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence.
- Officials from both countries reported exchanges of heavy fire along the Afghanistan–Pakistan border late Friday, with at least five people killed, according to Reuters.
- Taliban representatives said Pakistani forces launched attacks in Spin Boldak, and a deputy spokesperson reported five dead, including a Taliban member, from Pakistani shelling.
- Jaiswal said India is keeping a close eye on Pakistan and, when asked about its politics, remarked that “Democracy and Pakistan don’t go together.”
- The renewed violence comes weeks after an October 19 ceasefire brokered by Qatar and Turkiye, following an escalation that began with a Pakistani airstrike on Kabul in early October.