‘We are happy to fight you’: tensions rise on Afghan-Pakistani border

Five Pakistani soldiers killed as Taliban-led Afghanistan resists cooperation with Islamabad

The Pakistani-Afghan border, running along Britain's colonial-era Durand Line, is a centre of the increasing tensions between Islamabad and the Taliban, with a rise in attacks since the group came to power in Kabul.

Five Pakistani soldiers were killed on Sunday at a north-western border post in Khurram district by militants inside Afghanistan in an attack claimed by the Pakistani Taliban, Tehreek-e-Taliban-Pakistan (TTP).