KABUL, 16 July 2021, (TON): A senior Afghan government official said “Afghan security forces have retaken control of a major southern border crossing with Pakistan that the Taliban briefly captured, but the Taliban dismissed that saying they still held the town.

Taliban fighters captured the Spin Boldak-Chaman border crossing, the second most important crossing on the border with Pakistan and a major source of revenue for the Western-backed government in Kabul.

But Afghan forces retook the area's main market, the customs department and other government installations in the border town a few hours later, a senior government official in the southern province of Kandahar, where the crossing is located.

the official said “government forces, who had initially fallen back to minimise civilian and security personnel losses, were conducting clearing operations.”

He warned that the threat remained high as Taliban fighters outnumbered Afghan security forces in the area.

But Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said his forces still held the border post.