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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Shah Meer Baloch in Karachi

‘We are happy to fight you’: tensions rise on Afghan-Pakistani border

A Taliban fighter in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar province, Afghanistan.
A Taliban fighter in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar province, Afghanistan. Photograph: Wakil Kohsar/AFP/Getty Images

The Pakistani-Afghan border, running along Britain’s colonial-era Durand Line, is a centre of the increasing tensions between Islamabad and the Taliban, with a rise in attacks since the group came to power in Kabul.

Five Pakistani soldiers were killed on Sunday at a north-western border post in Khurram district by militants inside Afghanistan in an attack claimed by the Pakistani Taliban, Tehreek-e-Taliban-Pakistan (TTP).

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