After recent clashes resulted in the deaths of over a dozen civilians and soldiers, the Pakistani government and the Taliban in Afghanistan reached a temporary 48-hour ceasefire agreement on Wednesday.
The terms of the ceasefire are still unclear, and neither the foreign ministries of Pakistan nor the Taliban have yet responded to inquiries from Fox News Digital. However, reports on Wednesday indicated that Pakistan’s foreign ministry was attempting to start a dialogue to address the complicated conflict.
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According to Reuters, Pakistan and Afghanistan have both blamed each other for the outbreak of fighting over the weekend on their shared border, which has resulted in the worst conflict between the two sides since the Taliban took control of Kabul in 2021.
Although regular clashes over land disputes have occurred on the 1,600-mile-long border, Islamabad has charged the Taliban with giving anti-Pakistan militants safe harbor since the Taliban took power in 2021.
On Wednesday, the Taliban claimed that Pakistani forces had attacked the city of Spin Boldak in Afghanistan’s Kandahar Province, which is located directly on the shared border, and claimed that more than a dozen civilians had died and 100 more had been injured.
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According to Reuters, Pakistan also claimed that Taliban forces in Chaman, the district directly across from Spin Boldak in Afghanistan, injured four of its citizens in attacks.
According to reports, additional fighting broke out between soldiers and militants in Pakistan’s Orakzai district, further north, where Islamabad claimed that six Pakistani paramilitary soldiers were killed and two security personnel were injured.
Additionally, it was reported that nine militants were killed in the violence, which purportedly started during a search by Pakistani forces in a region that had been attacked by militants the previous week, killing eleven Pakistani soldiers.
According to social media reports, a Pakistani intelligence office in Peshawar, a city just north of Pakistan’s Orakzai region, was also attacked on Wednesday; however, Fox News Digital was unable to independently confirm this.
President Donald Trump suggested last week that he could assist in resolving the conflict between Afghanistan and Pakistan; however, neither side has stated that he has a role in the current truce, and the White House has not yet replied to inquiries from Fox News Digital on the matter.
