Casualties reported in Pak-Afghan clash.

Byline: Gul Hamaad farooqi

CHITRAL/KABUL -- Pakistani and Afghan border troops engaged in cross-border clashes for a third day on Tuesday. A number of causalities were reported on the two sides, with both alleging the other of committing aggression.

The fighting first broke out Sunday afternoon when Afghan forces and local militiamen tried to stop Pakistani forces from allegedly establishing a military installation along the border, Kunar Governor Abdul Ghani Musamem was reported as telling Al-Jazeera on Monday.

On Tuesday, Pakistan military said that six Pakistani soldiers and five civilians, including a woman, were injured in the fresh bout of shelling by the Afghans in Chitral district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.

Pakistan is trying to plug the porous border to stop infiltration of the terrorist who have long been launching attacks on Pakistan from their bases in the neighbouring country.

Instead of cooperating with Pakistan in the effort, Afghan government has unfortunately been trying to prevent the effective border management.

'Afghan security forces fired mortars and heavy machineguns from Nari District, Kunar province, targeting civil population in Arundu village, Chitral,' the ISPR said in a statement on Tuesday. '6 soldiers and 5 citizens, including a woman got injured,' added the military's media wing.

The Pakistani border troops responded effectively and targeted Afghan border posts of Kandkxi and Dilbar from where fire was being initiated, the statement said.

The Afghan border post suffered 'substantial damage' in the...