India, Oct. 12 -- Clashes erupted on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border overnight on Sunday, with both countries blaming the other for the flare-up.

Afghanistan's Taliban government has claimed that its forces killed 58 Pakistani soldiers in the fresh clashes that came after Islamabad bombed "terrorist hideouts" outside of Kabul recently. Pakistan claimed that more than 200 Taliban soldiers have died in the clash while acknowledging 23 deaths on their side.

A Taliban spokesperson called Sunday's clashes a retaliation for "repeated violations of Afghanistan's territory and airspace".

The central reason for the clashes between the Afghan and Pakistani forces along the Durand Line is the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan or TTP. Here is more about t...