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People on vehicles, holding Taliban flags, gather near the Friendship Gate crossing point in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border town of Chaman, Pakistan. Credit: Reuters Photo
Pakistan's foreign ministry confirmed Thursday that the Taliban were in control of a key town on the Afghan side of its border.
"They have taken control of Spin Boldak border crossing," said ministry spokesman Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri, a day after the Taliban seized the town as part of a sweeping offensive across the country.
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