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Pakistan and Afghanistan Trade Heavy Fire After Fragile Truce Ends

The renewed clashes test recent mediation efforts by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Türkiye.

Taliban police guard the area where a strike hit a house in the Momand Dara district of Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, near the border with Pakistan, Friday, March 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Hedayat Shah)
Afghan Taliban soldiers look toward the Pakistani side, on the Afghan side of the Torkham border crossing with Pakistan in Torkham, Afghanistan, Friday, Feb. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Wahidullah Kakar)
Police officers check vehicles as a security measure, following exchanges of fire between Pakistani and Afghan forces, along a road leading to the airport in Karachi, Pakistan, February 28, 2026. REUTERS/Asim Hafeez/File Photo
People carry the coffin of a victim, who died in what the Taliban said was a Pakistani air strike on a drug rehabilitation centre, during a mass burial, in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 18, 2026. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo

Overview

  • Both governments reported artillery exchanges on Sunday between Afghanistan's Kunar province and Pakistan's Bajur district, with Kabul saying one person was killed and 16 were wounded.
  • Pakistan said its forces returned fire after Afghan shelling and denied hitting homes or civilian sites.
  • Afghan officials accused Pakistan this month of bombing a Kabul drug-treatment hospital with a death toll they put above 400, a figure Pakistan rejects and the U.N. says is still under verification.
  • A brief Eid truce brokered by Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Türkiye ended last week, and cross-border fire resumed within days.
  • The fighting has displaced more than 100,000 people, and heavy rains and flash floods in both countries are compounding the strain on families and local services.