Overview

• Taliban authorities say they struck multiple Pakistani frontier positions overnight, describing the operation as payback for earlier raids inside Afghanistan.
• Kabul claims 58 Pakistani soldiers were killed and several posts seized, while Islamabad disputes the figures, reports 23 military deaths, and says hundreds of militants were neutralized.
• Pakistan’s interior minister condemned what he called unprovoked fire on civilian areas and officials warned of a strong response to the cross-border assault.
• Al Jazeera and Afghan media reported fresh exchanges of fire and the deployment of tanks and heavy weapons in Afghanistan’s Kunar province.
• The Torkham and Chaman crossings were shut with hundreds of trucks stranded, and Saudi Arabia and Qatar urged restraint after mediation was credited by Kabul with pausing part of the fighting.