- Taliban forces and Pakistan's military have exchanged fire along their shared border for a third consecutive week, resulting in casualties on both sides.
- Afghan officials reported two children killed and 10 people injured in southeastern Afghanistan due to Pakistani mortar shells, which also destroyed several homes.
- This follows a Pakistani report of four family members killed and two injured in its Bajaur district from an Afghan mortar, prompting Pakistani military retaliation.
- Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari declared Afghanistan's Taliban administration crossed a "red line" with drone attacks, leading to Pakistani airstrikes on equipment sites in Afghanistan's Kandahar province.
- While Pakistan accuses Kabul of harbouring militant groups like the Pakistani Taliban, Afghanistan denies these claims and states the conflict was imposed upon them, disrupting a previous Qatar-brokered ceasefire.
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