Afghans At Pak Border

Some 1.45 million Afghan refugees in Pakistan will be allowed to stay for another year, Islamabad said Wednesday, but it insisted evictions of undocumented migrants would continue.

Two Pakistani citizens, including a 12-year-old boy, were killed on Wednesday when an Afghan security personnel resorted to "unprovoked firing" at a busy border crossing, the army said.

Amid heightened tensions at their borders, Pakistan's caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar has written to his Afghan counterpart Mullah Muhammad Hasan Akhund that the two countries should work together to achieve common goals.

Thousands of Afghans trying to escape the misery at home have flocked to their country's southern border with Pakistan, but their attempts to get across have been stopped by the Taliban.

While images of desperate Afghans trying to flee their country from Kabul International airport have dominated the news, little has been known about the ground situation at Afghanistan's borders with Pakistan, Iran, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.

Hitting out at Pakistan for blocking Indo-Afghan trade via Attari border for "political reasons", India on Wednesday said nations cannot become "walls" aborting trade and culture that is as old as written history.

Pakistan today summoned a top Afghan diplomat after security forces of the two countries exchanged gunfire over the contentious fencing issue at north-western Torkham border crossing.

Heavy fighting between Pakistani troops and militants has killed 23 soldiers and scores of enemy fighters at a flashpoint near the Afghan border, military officials said on Tuesday.

A teenage suicide bomber targeted police in a bustling Pakistan town square on Friday, killing at least 24 people and wounding dozens in the tribal area near the Afghan border, officials said.

Pakistan's army chief will hold his first meeting with senior U.S. commanders on Wednesday to discuss American airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers at two Afghan border posts last year.

A US drone fired three missiles on Saturday in Pakistan's troubled northwestern tribal region near Afghan border, killing at least 13 people, including women and children. The drone fired the missiles at the home of a tribesman in a village located 40 km from the headquarters of North Waziristan tribal agency, local residents said.

Some 1.45 million Afghan refugees in Pakistan will be allowed to stay for another year, Islamabad said Wednesday, but it insisted evictions of undocumented migrants would continue.

Two Pakistani citizens, including a 12-year-old boy, were killed on Wednesday when an Afghan security personnel resorted to "unprovoked firing" at a busy border crossing, the army said.

Amid heightened tensions at their borders, Pakistan's caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar has written to his Afghan counterpart Mullah Muhammad Hasan Akhund that the two countries should work together to achieve common goals.

Thousands of Afghans trying to escape the misery at home have flocked to their country's southern border with Pakistan, but their attempts to get across have been stopped by the Taliban.

While images of desperate Afghans trying to flee their country from Kabul International airport have dominated the news, little has been known about the ground situation at Afghanistan's borders with Pakistan, Iran, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.

Hitting out at Pakistan for blocking Indo-Afghan trade via Attari border for "political reasons", India on Wednesday said nations cannot become "walls" aborting trade and culture that is as old as written history.

Pakistan today summoned a top Afghan diplomat after security forces of the two countries exchanged gunfire over the contentious fencing issue at north-western Torkham border crossing.

Heavy fighting between Pakistani troops and militants has killed 23 soldiers and scores of enemy fighters at a flashpoint near the Afghan border, military officials said on Tuesday.

A teenage suicide bomber targeted police in a bustling Pakistan town square on Friday, killing at least 24 people and wounding dozens in the tribal area near the Afghan border, officials said.

Pakistan's army chief will hold his first meeting with senior U.S. commanders on Wednesday to discuss American airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers at two Afghan border posts last year.

A US drone fired three missiles on Saturday in Pakistan's troubled northwestern tribal region near Afghan border, killing at least 13 people, including women and children. The drone fired the missiles at the home of a tribesman in a village located 40 km from the headquarters of North Waziristan tribal agency, local residents said.