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The Durand Line has again lit-up with deadly military clashes across the border at the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

Amidst various live coverage reported on CNN, BBC and the Russian news agency TASS, news has come-in with a television statement where the US President Donald Trump had given spot byte praising Pak’s “great Prime Minister, (and) General.”

Trump was responding to a reporter’s question about the strikes by Pakistan on Afghanistan.

“I would (intervene), but you have a great prime minister, you have a great general there, you have a great leader. I think two of the people that I really respect a lot. I think Pakistan is doing terrifically well,” he told media.

His statement came at a time Pakistan’s defence minister Khawaja Asif declared a state of ‘open war’ with their neighbour across the Durand Line.

On Friday the 27th of February 2026, the Pakistan had claimed that it struck 29 locations in Afghanistan including targets in Kabul and Kandahar.

Meanwhile panic gripped in Islamabad, the Capital of Pakistan after drones operated by Afghanistan Armed Forces dropped munitions apparently hitting ‘nuclear facility,’ near a military base in the Kakul, Abbottabad in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province (as reported by TASS news agency).

UN Secretary-General António Guterres expressed concern at the escalating clashes between Afghanistan and Pakistan, urging both sides to resolve their differences through diplomatic channels.

Stéphane Dujarric, spokesperson for the Secretary-General, told reporters that the UN chief has called on the parties to uphold their obligations under international law and ensure the protection of civilians.

Russia called on Afghanistan and Pakistan to abandon their confrontation and return to the negotiating table, Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

‘’Moscow hopes that direct military clashes on the Afghan-Pakistani border will end soon,’’ Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

China expressed its readiness to mediate and settle the escalating conflict between Afghanistan and Pakistan, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning said.

India has already strongly condemned Pakistan’s airstrikes on Afghan territory, resulting in civilian casualties, including women and children, during the holy month of Ramadan.

‘’It is another attempt by Pakistan to externalise its internal failures,” External Affairs Ministry spokesman Randhir Jaiswal had said when asked about the strikes.

India has also denounced the deaths of Afghan civilians in the attacks. Kabul claimed that Islamabad targeted civilian areas in the provinces of Nangarhar and Paktika in eastern Afghanistan, leading to at least 18 deaths.

“India strongly condemns Pakistan’s airstrikes on Afghan territory that have resulted in civilian casualties, including women and children, during the holy month of Ramadan. It is another attempt by Pakistan to externalise its internal failures,” Jaiswal had said.