Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmishes

Afghanistan–Pakistan skirmishes
	Part of Taliban insurgency – Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
	; ; The Durand Line (in red) border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Date	1949–50, 1960–61, 1973–92, 2007–present
Location	Eastern Afghanistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, along the international border
Status	Occasional clashes
Belligerents
Afghanistan; Supported by:; Soviet Union (1960–1991) Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (since 2012); Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (2015–2020)	Pakistan
Commanders and leaders
1949–1950; 1960–1961; Mohammed Zahir Shah; (Former King of Afghanistan) 1973–1992; Mohammed Daoud Khan (Former President of Afghanistan); Nur Muhammad Taraki (Former General Secretary of Afghanistan); Hafizullah Amin; (Former General Secretary of Afghanistan); Babrak Karmal; (Former General Secretary of Afghanistan); Mohammad Najibullah; (Former President of Afghanistan); 2007–present; Hibatullah Akhundzada; (Leader of Afghanistan); Ashraf Ghani; (Former President of Afghanistan); Hamid Karzai; (Former President of Afghanistan) Noor Wali Mehsud; (Leader of TTP); Fazal Hayat †; (Former Leader of TTP); Hakimullah Mehsud †; (Former Leader of TTP); Omar Khalid Khorasani †; (Leader of JuA)	1949–1950; Liaquat Ali Khan 1960–1961; Ayub Khan; (Former President of Pakistan) 1973–1992; Zulfikar Ali Bhutto; (Former President of Pakistan); Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry; (Former President of Pakistan); Sheikh Anwarul Haq; (Former Acting President of Pakistan); Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry; (Former President of Pakistan); Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq; (Former President of Pakistan); Ghulam Ishaq Khan; (Former President of Pakistan) 2007–present; Pervez Musharraf; (Former President of Pakistan); Muhammad Mian Soomro; (Former Acting President of Pakistan); Asif Ali Zardari; (Former President of Pakistan); Mamnoon Hussain; (Former President of Pakistan); Arif Alvi; (Former President of Pakistan); Asif Ali Zardari; (President of Pakistan)
Units involved
Afghan Army (Taliban forces); Afghan National Security Forces (until 2021) Afghan National Army (ANA); Afghan Border Police (ABP); Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (until 1992) Afghan Air Force 99th Missile Brigade; ; KhAD; Sarandoy;	Pakistan Armed Forces (Northern Command) Pakistan Army XI Corps; Frontier Corps; ; Pakistan Air Force;

A series of occasional armed skirmishes and firefights have occurred along the Afghanistan–Pakistan border between the Afghan Armed Forces and the Pakistan Armed Forces since 1949. The latest round of hostilities between the two countries began in April 2007. Militants belonging to Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan and Jamaat-ul-Ahrar also use Afghanistan's territory to target Pakistani security personnel deployed along the border. The Diplomat says that the presence of terrorists belonging to Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan on Afghan soil is the reason for sporadic shelling of Afghanistan's territory by Pakistani security forces.

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