Afghan Border

Pakistan opens key border crossing with Afghanistan ahead of Ramadan 'on humanitarian grounds'

Pakistan announced it was reopening its border with Afghanistan, weeks after bloody clashes broke out between the two countries' militaries

50 Afghan security personnel killed in cross-border firing, says Pakistani official

Fifty Afghan security personnel were killed and 100 others injured as Pakistani forces retaliated to unprovoked firing in Balochistan's Chaman area last week, a top official claimed here on Sunday.

Pakistan: 20 killed, 50 injured in IED blast at crowded vegetable market in Kurram Agency

At least 20 people were killed and over 50 others injured on Saturday in a powerful blast at a crowded vegetable market in north-west Pakistan's restive Kurram Agency

Pakistan summons top Afghan diplomat over 'unprovoked firing' at Torkham border

Pakistan on Monday summoned a top Afghan diplomat after two countries exchanged gunfire over the fencing issue at north-western Torkham border crossing.

Pakistani army airstrikes kill 34 militants in tribal region

The Pakistani army claims that it launched air strikes in a tribal region along the Afghan border, pounding militant hideouts and killing 34 terrorists.

Afghanistan: Taliban militants attack kill 13, including three policemen

At least three Afghan border policemen and 10 militants were killed after Taliban militants attacked security checkpoints in the country's eastern province of Kunar Saturday morning.

Bomb blasts kills 3 security personnel escorting polio workers in Pakistan

At least three security personnel who were guarding a polio vaccination team were killed on Tuesday in a bomb blast in Pakistan's northwestern tribal region. The officials were guarding a polio vaccination team in Salarzai area of Bajaur tribal region near Afghan border.

Pak post near Afghan border attacked by militants; 3 soldiers dead

Pakistan's army says a group of militants have attacked one of its positions from neighbouring Afghanistan, sparking a shootout that left 11 insurgents and three soldiers killed.