Fresh clashes on Pakistan-Afghanistan border kill two, wound several

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Clashes between Afghan and Pakistani security forces have killed two people and wounded several in a border region of the two neighbours, officials said, the latest in a series of such skirmishes. The forces started exchanging fire in a dispute over the setting up of a military check post in a southwestern border area that divides Chaman and Spin Boldak districts, three security officials told Reuters. Both sides blamed each other for starting the clashes that later spread to several nearby villages. “It is regrettable that the Pakistani security officials first opened the fire,” Afghan Taliba…

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