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[email protected] Truthful, Factual and Unbiased Vol:XI Issue No:78 Price: Afs.20 www.afghanistantimes.af www.facebook.com/ afghanistantimes www.twitter.com/ afghanistantimes TUESDAY. OCTOBER 16. 2018 -Mizan 24, 1397 HS AT Monitoring Desk the clash lasting several hours. However, it was briefly opened on Sunday evening to let stranded people cross over. Afghan KABUL: A key crossing point troops engaged in a skirmish with Pakistani forces who were between Afghanistan and Pakistan erecting a fence along the cross point in Kandahar. The exchange in Chaman remained closed on of fire last for hours and ended in the evening. After the incident, Monday in the wake of tensions Pakistani border authorities closed the Friendship Gate near and firefight between soldiers of Chaman, leaving thousands of people stranded on both sides of the two countries over the ‘unten- the Pak-Afghan border. Pakistan has been erecting a fence along able and unilateral border fencing’, its western border and insists that the initiative is to stop illegal Zamanews has reported. The gate influx of terrorists from Afghanistan, a move and a claim Kabul in Chaman was closed on Sunday has not denied. Pakistan has already informed the Afghan gov- after troops of the two sides ex- ernment of its decision to build a border fence. changed fire about 60 km north of However, Afghan officials in the Spin Buldak area raised objec- the border town of Chaman with tions to Islamabad’s decision. AT News Report KABUL: The Andar district of the insecure province of Ghazni has fallen for the second to Taliban insurgents, said MPs from the province, warning that most of the areas except the provincial capi- tal were under serious threat.