Clashes resume across Torkham Border between Pakistan, Afghan forces

Tension ratchet up once again between the countries after the death of a Pakistani army officer who was shot by Afghan forces

Clashes between security forces of Pakistan and Afghanistan across the Torkham Border, which erupted on Sunday over the construction of a new border post on the Pakistani side, have resumed.

The tension ratchet up once again between the two neighbouring countries after the death of a Pakistani army officer who was shot by Afghan forces in the clash across the border.

According to the Dawn, the Pakistan Army had moved heavy weaponry and additional troops to the Afghan border on Monday night.

Pakistan had, on Tuesday, shut the border with Afghanistan for the second day in a row due to the continued clashes which had also left one Afghan soldier dead.

More than a thousand mourners, on Tuesday, attended funeral prayers for the dead Afghan soldier in Afghanistan's eastern city of Jalalabad.

It is reported that demonstrators burned Pakistani flags at another protest in the southern Afghan city of Lashkar Gah.

The firing between the two forces first broke out on Sunday at the crossing, about 45 km west of Peshawar, over the construction of a new border post on the Pakistani side.

The Torkham Border has long been porous and disputed with Afghanistan blocking repeated attempts by Pakistan to build a fence on sections of the roughly 2,200-km-long frontier, rejecting the contours of the boundary.