The escalation comes days after Pakistan was accused of bombing a market inside Afghanistan. 

​The escalation comes days after Pakistan was accused of bombing a market inside Afghanistan.  

“In retaliation for the air strikes by Pakistani forces,” Taliban border forces in the east “engaged in heavy clashes against Pakistani forces’ posts in various border areas,” the Afghan military said in a statement, quoted by AFP. On Thursday, two explosions were heard in the Afghan capital and another in the southeast of the country.

A man from Nalanda set his wife on fire after she opposed his plan to marry his girlfriend. The woman died and the man’s family is absconding as police investigate.