Overview
- Border clashes restarted after the temporary ceasefire ended, with Afghan officials reporting two civilians killed and eight wounded in Kunar province.
- A Kunar information director said Pakistani artillery shelled the Narai and Sarkano districts, and he said Afghan border units returned fire.
- Afghan forces said they destroyed three Pakistani military posts and killed one person, while a local official in Pakistan said Afghan forces started the exchanges.
- The brief pause followed Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan requested by Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar, and Kabul alleged a drug treatment hospital in the capital was hit with heavy deaths that could not be independently verified as Pakistan denied targeting civilians.
- Separately, the Pakistani Taliban said it had resumed attacks inside Pakistan after a three-day Eid truce, and Pakistan accuses Kabul of sheltering the group, a charge Afghanistan’s Taliban government denies.