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MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (AFP) - – Afghan and Pakistani troops exchanged fire across the border on Wednesday, said officials, blaming each other for provoking the incident that left one Pakistani soldier dead.
 
The disputed and unmarked border area between Afghanistan and Pakistan has been classified by Washington as one of the most dangerous spots on Earth and a headquarters of Al-Qaeda and Taliban that fans conflict in both countries.
 
It was the most serious cross-border clash between Afghan and Pakistani troops since May 2007, when three civilians and a policeman were killed.
 
A border police commander in Afghanistan's eastern province of Khost confirmed the exchange of fire and accused Pakistan of sparking the battle.
 
"At around 11:00 am (0630 GMT) today, Pakistani troops in Waziristan started firing heavy and light weapons towards police posts in Gurbuz district. Our soldiers returned fire," the official said.
 
"Their attack was completely unprovoked and without reason. The fighting is still continuing, there hasn't been casualties on our side," he added.
 
A Pakistani security official said one soldier was killed and eight wounded, two of them seriously, in an intermittent exchange over four hours.
 
"We fired in retaliation. Our troops are using artillery and mortars," said a senior military official in the northwestern city of Peshawar.
 
Two Pakistani intelligence officials told AFP that Afghan troops fired mortars into Bange-e-Dar checkpoint in Ghulam Khan town in North Waziristan tribal district, considered the Taliban's main stronghold in Pakistan.
 
"We are responding with artillery and mortars," one of them added.
 
Pakistani reports of casualties on the Afghan side could not be confirmed.
 
Afghanistan and Pakistan routinely exchange recriminations on border security, accusing each other of allowing militants to infiltrate the porous and mountainous border to carry out attacks.
 
Afghan and Western officials say that the nine-year Taliban insurgency against the Kabul government and more than 140,000 US-led foreign troops gets valuable support from Taliban sanctuaries in Pakistan's tribal belt.
 
Pakistan, which denies extending the Taliban any support, has seen a marked deterioration in security since hundreds of Taliban and Al-Qaeda fighters fled into the tribal belt after the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.
 
Neither Afghanistan nor ethnic Pashtuns living on both sides of the border accept the frontier, known as the Durand Line, which was drawn up by colonial Britain in 1893. Afghanistan says it eats into its territory.
 
Local residents say Pakistan's Bange-e-Dar post is on a hill overlooking the Afghan post, about two kilometres (one mile) from the border.
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
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