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2023 Chitral cross-border attacks. Following the Taliban takeover of Kabul in August 2021, clashes erupted near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Chitral district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, on September 7, 2023. A group of armed fighters, which were affiliated with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), attacked five Pakistani military ...
Afghanistan–Pakistan relations refer to the bilateral ties between Afghanistan and Pakistan.In August 1947, the partition of British India led to the emergence of Pakistan along Afghanistan's eastern frontier, and the two countries have since had a strained relationship; Afghanistan was the sole country to vote against Pakistan's admission into the United Nations following the latter's ...
The Pakistani Taliban ( Urdu: پاکستانی طالبان ), formally called the Tehreek-e-Taliban-e-Pakistan ( تحریکِ طالبان پاکستان, lit. 'Pakistani Taliban Movement', abbr. TTP ), is an umbrella organization of various Islamist armed militant groups operating along the Afghan–Pakistani border. Formed in 2007 by ...
KABUL/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Afghanistan's Taliban said on Monday that Pakistan carried out two air strikes on its territory, killing five women and three children, and it fired heavy weapons at ...
The mass deportations primarily affected those Afghans who fled to Pakistan after Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan. There were an estimated 3.8 million Afghans in Pakistan at the time the deportation order was announced, according to the United Nations, while Pakistani authorities believed the number to be as high as 4.4 million.
The Durand Line ( Pashto: د ډیورنډ کرښه; Urdu: ڈیورنڈ لائن; Dari: خط دیورند ), also known as the Afghanistan–Pakistan border, is a 2,611-kilometre (1,622 mi) international border between Afghanistan and Pakistan in South Asia. [1] [a] The western end runs to the border with Iran and the eastern end to the border ...
5 May 2017 – In the 2017 Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmish, a Pakistani census team in Chaman was attacked by Afghan forces and in return Pakistani forces attacked the Afghan Army. At least seven Afghan soldiers and two Pakistani soldiers were killed, as well as at least two civilians.
Islam. ( Sunni majority, Shia minority) Afghans in Pakistan ( Urdu: افغان مهاجرين, Afghān muhājirīn, lit. 'Afghan migrants') are temporary residents from Afghanistan who are registered in Pakistan as refugees and asylum seekers. [2] They fall under the jurisdiction of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).