Kabul, Taliban and Pakistan
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Cross-border fighting between Pakistan and Afghanistan intensified overnight, with both sides claiming heavy losses and the Pakistani defence minister saying his country was in an "
Pakistan says it killed 133 Taliban operatives in Operation Ghazab lil-Haq after cross-border clashes, as Kabul counters with its own claims of heavy Pakistani losses amid escalating Durand Line tensions.
Tens of thousands of Afghan citizens are returning from Pakistan each month, many of them pouring into Jalalabad, an Afghan city near the border. The city’s population has doubled in the past two years to 600,