Pakistani and Afghan forces clashed in a gun battle near the two countries’ border that killed at least one Afghan border policeman.
Zia Durrani, a spokesman for the police chief of the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, claimed that Pakistani forces attacked Afghan police checkpoints on the border, early on Thursday morning.
He said that the gun battle between the two sides in Maroof District was still going on, but that the first hour was very intense.
The Pakistanis were using light and heavy machine guns, Durrani said.
