Pakistan and Afghanistan Claim Killing Dozens of the Other Side’s Troops in Relentless Fighting

Pakistani and Afghan forces launched multiple strikes at each other in cross-border clashes on Friday, and each side claimed to have killed dozens more enemy troops in what has been the deadliest fighting yet between the two neighbors—a conflict that Islamabad has declared to be an “open war.” 
  
Repeated appeals from the international community for restraint have had no effect as the fighting, now in its ninth day, continued unabated. 
  
Also on Friday, a suicide car bomber struck a security post in the district of North Waziristan, which borders Afghanistan. One civilian was killed and 18 were wounded, several of them seriously, a local doctor, Mohammad Asif, said. 
  
In Afghanistan, the Taliban-run government’s Defense Ministry said Friday its forces “destroyed numerous Pakistani military posts” along the border in Nangarhar, Kandahar, Kunar, Paktia, and Khost provinces, killing dozens of Pakistani soldiers. 
 
 
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