According to reports on Wednesday, which cited security authorities, new confrontations along the Pakistan-Afghanistan Afghan border broke out Tuesday night, killing at least 15 civilians from Afghanistan and six paramilitary troops from Pakistan.

Afghan officials said the AFP news agency that the new violence on the border between the two nations had killed 15 people and injured dozens more, despite Reuters reporting that at least six Pakistani paramilitary soldiers had been killed in a confrontation with militants near the Afghan border.

Pakistan claimed its troops replied to cross-border shooting by Afghanistan military and local militants on Tuesday night.

This comes days after the two nations clashed last weekend after Afghanistan attacked Pakistan in retaliation for an incident in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, which the country blamed on Pakistan.ccording to a Bloomberg story that cited unnamed security officials, Pakistan stated on X that it replied with full force to the "unprovoked" firing in the northwest Kurram region, killing numerous Taliban and damaged their forward posts and a tank.

According to PTV, the retaliatory attack claimed the life of a key figure in the Pakistani Taliban, a regional branch of the Afghan Taliban.

Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Taliban government in Pakistan, said in an X post that Afghanistan troops had killed numerous "invading" soldiers from Pakistan while capturing their stations and seizing their weapons and tanks.