Govt says Pakistan border point retaken

Afghan security forces have retaken control of a major southern border crossing with Pakistan that the Taliban briefly captured, said a senior Afghan government official on Thursday, while the Taliban countered that they still held the town. The Taliban claimed they had captured the Spin Boldak-Chaman border crossing, the second-most important crossing on the border with Pakistan. Separately, an Afghan government negotiator on Thursday said the Taliban had offered a threemonth cease-fire in exchange for the release of 7,000 insurgent prisoners.