2025-10-12
27 分钟This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Julia McFarlane and at 5 o'clock GMT on Sunday the 12th of October, these are our main stories.
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Intense clashes are being reported on the Afghanistan border with Pakistan after a Taliban attack on Pakistani military outposts.
This latest escalation comes just a few days after a Pakistani airstrike in the Afghan capital Kabul.
Afghanistan is considered a safe haven for separatist Pakistani militants as well as the Pakistani Taliban.
Both groups have been increasingly engaged in fighting with the Pakistan military in recent months.
Our Global Affairs reporter and Barasan Etirajan explained it all for me.
A few days ago,
there was a major attack on Pakistani security forces inside Pakistan that was blamed on Pakistani Taliban militants who are aligned ideologically with the Afghan Taliban.
Now 16 soldiers were killed in that attack and a day after Afghanistan blamed Pakistan of carrying out air strikes inside Pakistan and Pakistan neither confirmed nor denied these air strikes.
The reason behind this latest round of fighting has been the Pakistani Taliban militants.
Now Pakistan says that they are operating from Afghanistan crossing the border and carrying out attacks on the security forces.
So hundreds of soldiers have died in the past few years.
And especially their intensity has increased after the Afghan Taliban seized power in Kabul.
the Taliban administration, they denied these charges.
So that has led to the latest round of accusation and counter accusation.