Pakistan and Afghanistan's Taliban-appointed government have agreed to boost trade and lower tensions along their border amid a surge in militant attacks on security forces, officials said Monday.

Tensions between neighbors Pakistan and Afghanistan are running high as the Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Asif said this week that his country plans to continue launching cross-border attacks ...

Tensions escalate along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border following a deadly suicide attack on a Pakistani army convoy in North ...

Tension has risen between Pakistan and Afghanistan since the Taliban government seized power in 2021. Islamabad claims that hostile armed groups carry out regular attacks from across the border.

Tensions remained high over the past few days, with a cross-border attack from Afghanistan late last month and reports of renewed fighting along the border Friday.

Tensions Escalate on Pakistan-Afghanistan Border. ... Afghan security stands guard at a fenced corridor of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in Spin Boldak, Afghanistan, on Dec. 3, 2023.

Meanwhile, Pakistan is grappling with rising tensions on its northwestern border with Afghanistan. Attacks inside Pakistan by the Afghanistan-based Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have surged ...

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan – The closure of the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan is more than inconvenient; it is costly. Officials on both sides of the border say in just one month, the closure ...

Pakistan and Afghanistan’s Taliban government have agreed to boost trade and lower tensions along their border amid a surge in attacks on Pakistani security forces, officials said.

While relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan have been fraught in recent years, two underlying tension points—the border and cross-border violence—have been longstanding.