Tanks on Afghan roads: Taliban claims capture from Pakistani Army | WATCH

Viral video shows Taliban fighter taking away Pak army tank

Hours before Islamabad and Kabul agreed to a 48-hour ceasefire, videos went viral on social media showing tanks racing through the streets of Afghanistan’s southeastern Spin Boldak province. The clips claimed that Taliban forces had captured the tanks from the Pakistani military during border confrontations on Wednesday.

In a statement shared on X, Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid claimed that Afghan forces returned Pakistani fire in border areas, killing “a large number" of Pakistani soldiers, seizing “Pakistani weapons and tanks," and destroying Pakistani military installations.

Following fresh clashes on Wednesday, Taliban fighters seized a Pakistani T-55 tank, one of 282 modernized units Islamabad procured from Serbia to fortify its Durand Line defenses. pic.twitter.com/PyZ44gGRZB

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Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif, during an interview with Geo News, said, "They are showing videos claiming they have captured a Pakistani tank; we do not have those tanks in our inventory. They probably bought it from some junk dealer."

Pakistan-Afghanistan border clash 

A ceasefire along the frontier between Afghanistan and Pakistan was holding on Thursday for 48 hours, officials on both sides confirmed, after dozens of troops and civilians were killed in recent cross-border clashes.

In Spin Boldak, a focal point of the fighting on the Afghan side, an AFP journalist reported that shops had reopened and residents were returning to homes they had fled during the violence.

The 48-hour ceasefire was intended to allow time to “find a positive solution… through constructive dialogue,” according to Islamabad.

Tensions between the two neighbours escalated as Pakistan faced a surge in attacks on its security forces along the western border with Afghanistan, led by the Pakistani Taliban and its affiliates.

Islamabad accused Kabul of providing haven to militants who plan and launch attacks from Afghan territory, a charge the Taliban government has denied.

The Taliban-Pakistan conflict flared up again on Tuesday night after fresh clashes erupted between Pakistani security forces and Taliban fighters in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Shortly after, a video circulated on social media claiming Afghan forces had captured a Pakistani military tank following the confrontation.