Earlier, Pakistan declared a four-km area adjacent to the Chaman border with Afghanistan a "no-go area" amid the tensions.
The Pakistani DGMO required its Afghan counterpart that their forces stay on their side of the border and defuse the situation.
Abdul Razeq, the police chief of Afghanistan's Kandahar province, added: "After negotiations, both sides have agreed that a geological survey should be conducted".
Yesterday, Pakistani forces elevated their rhetoric by saying Afghan forces had suffered dramatic losses.
An Afghan spokesman from the Kandahar police, Ghurzang Afridi, told DPA news agency that the Pakistani census team had worked on the Afghan side of the border.
Gen Riaz, who along with Maj Gen Anjum visited Chaman on Sunday, was talking to reporters.
He said two Afghan border police were killed in Spin Boldak, on the Afghan side of the border, and another 11 were wounded.
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General Raziq went on to assert that the two villages, with a total population of around 15,000 people, are located at the "zero point of the Durand Line and a large number of them are enrolled in the Afghan border force". "Pakistan Army Major General Sahir Shamshad Mirza condemned unprovoked firing on Pakistani villagers and security forces which caused casualties", the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement.
"The Friendship Gate will remain closed till the Afghan government changes its attitude", he declared. Army is also monitoring the area with helicopters.
Afghanistan has rejected claims that Pakistani security forces killed 50 Afghan soldiers in retaliation to the Chaman cross-border attack.
In a statement, Pakistan's army Friday said the shooting from the Afghan side came despite being alerted in advance that census workers would be visiting villages there as part of the national census, which was launched in March.
Skirmishes on Pakistan's border with Afghanistan have not been as frequent as on its eastern border with India but there have been occasional firefights, mostly due to a disputed border.
The Ministry of Commerce and Industries (MoCI) meanwhile said any border closure by Pakistan is against local and global laws and against WTO agreements. However, he added, Pakistani forces would protect their territorial solidity at all costs.
But Sediq Siddiqi, a senior spokesman for the Kabul government, on Sunday "totally rejected" the Pakistani claim of killing 50 Afghan forces as "very false".
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