Pakistan and Afghanistan have accused one another of launching new cross-border attacks.
Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities said on Monday 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 resumption of violence threatens fragile peace talks between the neighbours. The two countries agreed on a fragile ceasefire in March that halted weeks of deadly violence.
The Taliban’s Deputy Spokesperson Hamdullah Fitrat said that the Pakistani military had launched mortar and rocket attacks that wounded 45 people.
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.
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.
