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Long queues at border crossings amid Afghan-Pakistan clashes
All border crossings between Pakistan and Afghanistan remain closed as the countries traded fire for the second time in a week.
The closures entered a fourth day on Wednesday after deadly weekend clashes spiked tensions along the 1,622-mile-long (2,611km) border. It was not clear when the border might reopen, with hundreds of lorries lining the access roads, waiting for bilateral trade to resume.
The fighting started on Saturday night when Afghan forces struck several Pakistani military posts. Afghan officials claimed to have killed 58 Pakistani soldiers, but Pakistan's military said it lost 23 soldiers and killed more than 200 "Taliban and affiliated terrorists" in retaliatory fire along the border.
The clashes initially halted on Sunday following appeals from Saudi Arabia and Qatar. But they continued on Tuesday after the countries' forces traded fire in the remote northwestern border region connecting Afghanistan's Khost province with Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
State-run media in Pakistan accused Afghan troops and Pakistani Taliban of jointly opening "unprovoked fire" at a Pakistani post in Kurram, which was met with a "strong response.
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