After the Taliban closed the main trading and border crossing points, the Torkham gate, the Islamic Emirate forces and Pakistani border guards engaged in a gun battle, leaving one guard injured.
After clashes erupted between the Taliban movement and the Pakistani military at the Afghan-Pakistani border, several Afghani families fled the Dand-e-Patan district in Afghanistan's Paktia province.
A border clash between two sides at the Spin Boldak-Chaman crossing left one Pakistani border guard dead, Gandhara news outlet reported. The Chaman-Spin Boldak crossing is approximately 100 km southeast of Kandahar city, Afghanistan, and about 100 km northwest of Quetta, Pakistan.