The Foreign Office (FO) announced on Wednesday that a temporary ceasefire had been agreed with Afghanistan for the next 48 hours amid recent border hostilities between the two countries.
“A temporary ceasefire has been decided between the Pakistani government and the Afghan Taliban regime, with the mutual consent of both parties, for the next 48 hours starting at 6:00 p.m. today, at the request of the Taliban.
“During this period, both sides will make sincere efforts to find a positive solution to this complex but solvable issue through constructive dialogue,” the FO said.
Taliban regime spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said in X that Afghan forces were instructed to respect the ceasefire, “unless any aggression occurs.”
Attacks in Kabul and Kandahar
Previously, the state broadcaster PTV News reported that Pakistan’s armed forces carried out “precision strikes” in Kandahar province and the Afghan capital, Kabul.
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“These precision strikes were carried out in the Afghan province of Kandahar. As a result of these attacks, the Afghan Taliban battalion number 4 and the border brigade number 6 were completely destroyed. Dozens of foreign and Afghan agents were killed.”
The statement added that Pakistan’s army possessed “full capability to give a strong and comprehensive response to any external aggression.”
In a later update, pay television reported, citing security sources, that attacks were also carried out in Kabul.
“The center and leadership of Fitna al-Hindustan They were attacked in Kabul. “The Pakistan Army has full capacity to give an adequate response to any aggression.” pay television reported.
Fitna-al-Hindustan is a state-designated term for terrorist organizations in Balochistan.
He pay television The publication quoted security sources as saying that the Pakistan Army attacked the headquarters of the Afghan Taliban Battalion No. 4, Battalion 8 and Border Brigade No. 5 in Kandahar.
“All of these targets were meticulously selected, isolated from civilian populations, and successfully destroyed,” the post said.
Hours earlier, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said security forces repulsed an attack by the Afghan Taliban along the Balochistan border, killing between 15 and 20 of its members.
According to the ISPR, the Afghan Taliban “resorted to cowardly attacks[s] in four places [the] “In the Spin Boldak area” in the early hours of Wednesday. “The attack was effectively repulsed by Pakistani forces,” the statement said.
Today’s fighting is the third major skirmish between Pakistan and Afghanistan in a week, following last night’s incident in Kurram and previous skirmishes that began on Saturday night and continued into Sunday morning at several locations.
According to the ISPR, 23 Pakistani soldiers were martyred and 29 were injured in the incident that began with the Afghan Taliban attacking posts across the border. The military’s media affairs wing also said credible intelligence estimates and damage assessment showed that “more than 200 Taliban and affiliated terrorists have been neutralized, while the number of injured is much higher.”
Afghanistan claimed it carried out the attack as a “retaliation” measure, accusing Islamabad of carrying out airstrikes on its territory last week. For its part, Islamabad did not confirm whether it was behind the airstrikes, but stressed Pakistan’s right and determination to defend itself.
The weekend clash took place against a backdrop of Pakistan suffering multiple casualties among security forces in intelligence-based operations against terrorists.
Islamabad has repeatedly called on Kabul to prohibit terrorist groups from using its territory to attack Pakistan; However, Afghanistan denies the allegations and claims that Afghan soil is not used for attacks against neighboring countries.
The issue of terrorists using Afghan soil against Pakistan has long strained ties between the two countries and ties appear to have taken a nosedive with the recent surge in border hostilities.
On Monday, Defense Minister Khawaja Asif said while speaking on Geographic news program ‘Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada ke Saath’ that there were no “links” between Islamabad and Kabul. “Right now we are at a stalemate. You can say there are no active hostilities, but the environment is hostile,” he said, adding: “There are no links, direct or indirect, so far.”
The minister also stated that hostilities between the two sides could resume “at any time.”
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