A Taliban official said that Pakistani artillery fire killed one civilian and wounded three others in the eastern province of Kunar, as cross-border tensions between the two sides continue to rise.
Faridullah Dehqan, a spokesman for the Taliban police command in Kunar, said in a statement that Pakistani forces fired artillery shells on Tuesday evening into the Pashingar area of Nari district. One of the shells, he said, struck a residential home, killing a civilian and injuring three others.
Pakistani officials have not commented on the reported strike.
The incident is the third reported exchange of fire along the border since the expiration of what Pakistan had described as a temporary unilateral ceasefire. During the ceasefire, Taliban reported three violation incidents by Pakistan and three civilian deaths.
Separately, sources told Amu TV that Pakistani aircraft carried out strikes on Monday night against a Taliban military base in Dehdadi district of Balkh province. Taliban have not disclosed any information about casualties or damage from that attack.
The latest developments come as clashes between Taliban and Pakistani border troops, along with reported Pakistani airstrikes in several parts of Afghanistan, including Kabul, enter a fourth consecutive week.
Both sides have claimed to have inflicted heavy losses on the other, though those figures could not be independently verified.
United Nations has reported that 76 civilians were killed and 193 others wounded in the first two weeks of the clashes in eastern Afghanistan.
