Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmishes

Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmishes
	Part of the Afghan conflict, the Taliban insurgency, the Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and the Insurgency in Balochistan
	; The international border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Date	Main Phases: 1949–50 (1 year); 1960–61 (1 year); 1973–92 (19 years); 2007–2021 (14 years); 2022–2024 (2 years); 2024–present;
Location	Eastern Afghanistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, along the international border
Status	Occasional clashes
Belligerents
Afghanistan Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (since 2012) Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (from 2015);	Pakistan
Commanders and leaders
1949–1950; 1960–1961; Mohammad Zahir Shah; (King of Afghanistan) 1973–1992; Mohammad Daoud Khan X (President of Afghanistan); Nur Muhammad Taraki X (General Secretary of Afghanistan); Hafizullah Amin X; (General Secretary of Afghanistan); Babrak Karmal; (General Secretary of Afghanistan); Mohammad Najibullah X; (President of Afghanistan); 2007–present; Hibatullah Akhundzada; (Leader of Afghanistan); Ashraf Ghani; (President of Afghanistan); Hamid Karzai; (President of Afghanistan) Noor Wali Mehsud; (Emir of TTP); Fazal Hayat †; (Emir of TTP); Hakimullah Mehsud †; (Emir of TTP); Omar Khalid Khorasani †; (Emir of JuA)	1949–1950; Liaquat Ali Khan X 1960–1961; Fld. Mshl. Ayub Khan; (President of Pakistan) 1973–1992; Zulfikar Ali Bhutto; (President of Pakistan); Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry; (President of Pakistan); Sheikh Anwarul Haq; (Acting President of Pakistan); Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry; (President of Pakistan); Zia-ul-Haq ; (President of Pakistan); Ghulam Ishaq Khan; (President of Pakistan) 2007–present; General Pervez Musharraf; (President of Pakistan); Muhammad Mian Soomro; (Acting President of Pakistan); Asif Ali Zardari; (President of Pakistan); Mamnoon Hussain; (President of Pakistan); Arif Alvi; (President of Pakistan); Asif Ali Zardari; (President of Pakistan)
Units involved
Afghan Armed Forces (Taliban forces) Afghan Army; 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; XII Corps; Artillery Regiment Corps; Air Defence Corps; ; Pakistan Air Force; ; Civil Armed Forces Frontier Corps FC KPK (North); FC KPK (South); FCB (North); FCB (South); ; Pakistan Levies; Federal Constabulary; ; Pakistani Intelligence community ISI; MI; ;

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 internationally designated terrorist groups Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Jamaat-ul-Ahrar also use Afghanistan's territory to target Pakistani security personnel deployed along the border. Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, spokesperson for the Pakistan Armed Forces, said that the presence of terrorists belonging to the TTP on Afghan soil is the reason for sporadic shelling of, and airstrikes on, Afghanistan's territory by the Pakistan Armed Forces.