Pakistan's army says 12 soldiers were killed while repelling an Afghan attack

The Pakistani army lost 12 soldiers during the repulse of an attack from Afghanistan on the night of February 27. This was stated by the Director General of the Public Relations Service of the Pakistani Army, Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry.

"At the moment, 12 brave soldiers have died defending the territorial integrity of Pakistan," Dawn newspaper quoted him as saying.

Lieutenant General Chaudhry added that 27 more soldiers were injured and one soldier was missing.

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Fighting has engulfed the border areas and major cities of Afghanistan.

On the same day, the Pakistani army killed 274 Afghan soldiers, and over 400 soldiers were injured. Chaudhry noted that during the clash, the country's armed forces destroyed 83 border posts from Afghanistan and captured 17. He added that 115 tanks, armored personnel carriers and artillery had been destroyed.

On February 26, a representative of the Taliban movement of the 201st Khalid ibn Walid Army Corps reported that armed clashes had occurred on the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan. The battle began between the border units of the two countries in the Nazyan area of the Afghan province of Nangarhar near the Durand line.

The Russian President's Special Representative for Afghanistan, Adviser to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Zamir Kabulov, addressing the countries, called on them to stop mutual attacks as soon as possible and to resolve differences diplomatically. Later it became known about the resumption of fighting on the Afghan-Pakistani border.

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