Renewed cross-border violence between Pakistan and Afghanistan has raised concerns over the stability of a fragile ceasefire agreed in March.
Authorities in Afghanistan’s Taliban administration and Pakistani officials have exchanged accusations following incidents along the Durand Line, with reported casualties on both sides.
Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities said on Monday (27 April) that four people were killed in attacks in the eastern Kunar province. Pakistani officials reported at least three civilians were injured by gunfire in South Waziristan.
The Taliban’s Deputy Spokesperson Hamdullah Fitrat said that the Pakistani military had launched mortar and rocket attacks that wounded 45 people.
“We strongly condemn these attacks by the Pakistani military regime, in which ordinary people, academic, and educational institutions were targeted, and declare them unforgivable war crimes,” the spokesman wrote on social media.
Pakistan’s Information Ministry dismissed the report as a “blatant lie” and insisted that there had been no attack on the university.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for the country’s border forces described the incident in South Waziristan as the most serious clash since the ceasefire was declared.
He said that students, women, and children were among those injured as homes and the Sayed Jamaluddin Afghani University in Kunar province’s capital Asadabad came under fire.
The escalation risks undermining China-mediated peace efforts and wider regional diplomacy involving Gulf states. Disputes over militant activity, particularly the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), remain central to tensions.
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