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Pakistan strikes Afghan militant border posts and camps after cross-border fire

Pakistan’s security forces struck Afghan militant border posts and camps on 17 March after Afghan armed men opened fire without provocation along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, a Pakistani security source said. The source said Pakistani security forces responded effectively to the firing. No casualty figures or further details were given.

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This item is a thin, single-source claim about a cross-border exchange with no casualty figures, no independent confirmation and no named locations beyond the province, so it adds little to what is already known about Pakistan-Afghanistan border friction. The detail that matters is the framing: a Pakistani security source describing unprovoked fire and an effective response, which is the language of escalation management rather than of a declared operation. Whether the incident stays a localized exchange or draws a formal response from Afghan authorities is the open question worth watching.

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