On Saturday, explosions rocked Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, just as the Taliban's foreign minister started his official visit to India. After the explosions, the violence escalated dramatically.

US President Donald Trump on Friday claimed that Pakistan attacked Afghanistan, asserting he could easily resolve the conflict. On Saturday, Pakistan

Tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan surged over the weekend with the Taliban government claiming to have killed 58 Pakistani soldiers in fierce clashes at the shared border. On the other hand, Islamabad has reportedly killed 200 Taliban terrorists.

Firefights broke out along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border late on Saturday, with the Afghan Taliban attacking Pakistani posts, according to security officials from both countries, following a Pakistani airstrike in Kabul this week.

Mehsud took over the leadership of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in 2018 after his three predecessors were killed by U.S. drone strikes. By then, Pakistani army operations had largely driven the group out of their former strongholds and into Afghanistan.

The Taliban government has confirmed that it attacked Pakistani troops in multiple mountainous locations on the northern border. A Taliban spokesman said 58 Pakistani military personnel had been killed in what it called "an act of retaliation". It claimed Pakistan had violated Afghan airspace and bombed a market inside its border on Thursday.

The two sides have skirmished along the border in the past, but Saturday night’s heavy clashes underscore the deepening tensions.