Afghanistan-Pakistan clashes: Civilians caught in crossfire

DW (English)

The Afghan Taliban and Pakistan have agreed to a ceasefire along their border after days of intense shelling. Citizens displaced by the conflict spoke to DW about the ordeal.

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00:00A fragile ceasefire between Kabul and Islamabad is in place after days of cross-border bombing

00:06between the Afghan Taliban and Pakistan.

00:09On October 16, Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif said the temporary truce could be extended

00:15if the Taliban heed Islamabad's demands.

00:19Islamabad wants Kabul to eliminate the Pakistani Taliban and says Afghan territory must not

00:25be used to plan attacks against Pakistan.

00:29Kabul denies that the Pakistani Taliban operate from Afghan soil with impunity.

00:35Soldiers on either side of the border have been killed in the recent clashes.

00:40But it is the civilians that are paying the biggest price for this conflict, especially

00:44those that live near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

00:48They are the people who live in the country and are the people who live in the country.

00:58They are the people who live here and are the people who live here.

01:01It's not that I'm not a person's way of doing it.

01:05I'm going to ask that when there is an abatic area,

01:09it doesn't make a sign.

01:12I'm going to take this money from the other side.

01:15Because I'm 15,000 people.

01:17I'm going to take this money from the other side.

01:22I'm going to take this money from the other side.

01:24For God's sake, we have to stop the war and we have to stop the war.

01:32We don't have to stop the war.

01:35We have to stop the war.

01:40Locals in this border area told DW that around 70-80% of residents have fled due to cross-border firing.

01:49i don't get the getirator actually told me a question about Brigos regarding calling thousand reckless weapons.

01:56We've had to fix the war to not stop it.

01:58We have to stop the war and flank the Pine Acosta to Sweden and November.

02:02We have to thank the people whose doorstrails are beyond peace or racism,

02:10we need to live in the nation.

02:12Our ruge essentially wants to pass wean so we need to live in the kangae and qu booster unity.

02:16Asghar Khan Achagzai, a former Balochistan provincial assembly member, told DW that both

02:22Islamabad and Kabul have brought nothing but destruction upon each other.

02:27We are reaching the end to the end of the world and in the end of the world, we are

02:34reaching the end of the world.

02:45The clashes between Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban started last week with the Islamic

02:51fundamentalist group accusing Islamabad of launching air strikes, targeting Kabul and

02:56another location.

02:59Subsequently, Taliban authorities said they launched attacks on Pakistani troops at the

03:04border, prompting Islamabad to retaliate.

03:09Islamabad and the Afghan Taliban were close allies in the 1990s and some experts say Pakistan

03:16even supported the Islamist group after the 2001 US invasion of Afghanistan.

03:24But their ties worsened after the Taliban seized power in Kabul again in 2021.

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