29-Mar-2024  Srinagar booked.net

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One Killed In Border Fight Between Taliban-Iran

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Clashes erupted between Taliban forces and Iran border guards in the border area between Nimroz province in Afghanistan and Hirmand in Iran on Sunday leaving one dead on the Afghanistan side.

An Afghan police official have confirmed the casualty,

“We have one killed and one wounded; the cause of the clash is not clear yet,” the police spokesman of the southern Afghan province of Nimroze, Bahram Haqmal, told Reuters.

Reportedly, the clash rages when a member of Taliban forces had tried to hoist flag in an area ‘which is not an Afghan territory.’

Iran’s Tasnim news agency said clashes broke out after Taliban forces tried to raise their flag “in an area which is not Afghan territory.”

Last month, Iran reported the death of one of its guards in a similar incident in the same area.

Maysam Barazandeh, the governor of the Iranian border area of Hirmand, was quoted saying the clashes had stopped and there were no casualties.

Taliban has border issues with neighbouring Pakistan too.