'Truce broken': Taliban accuses Pak of striking civilian areas; warns of retaliation

Pakistani airstrikes deed Afghanistan’s Paktika province, with attacks reportedly targeting residential homes successful Argun and Barmal districts, according to Tolo News. A Taliban authoritative speaking to quality bureau AFP confirmed the strikes saying that the "truce has been broken" by Islamabad."Pakistan has breached the ceasefire and bombed 3 locations successful Paktika" the authoritative told AFP adding that, "Afghanistan volition retaliate."This comes hours aft reports that the impermanent ceasefire betwixt Afghanistan and Pakistan was extended.A elder diplomatic root quoted by Pakistan's Dawn quality had confirmed that the ceasefire, which was acceptable to expire Friday evening, had been extended until the decision of the Doha negotiations. A 48-hour ceasefire was agreed betwixt Afghanistan and Pakistan pursuing deadly unit betwixt the neighbouring countries. The unit betwixt the 2 neighbours accrued dramatically aft explosions rocked Kabul. Following this, the Taliban launched an violative on its confederate borderline with Pakistan, prompting Islamabad to committedness a beardown response.Before the ceasefire ended, Pakistani overseas ministry spokesperson Shafqat Ali Khan stated that some sides needed to "wait for 48 hours" to "see if the ceasefire is held."

Tensions betwixt the 2 nations are rooted successful information concerns, with Pakistan accusing Afghanistan of harbouring militants from the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a assertion Kabul denies. A termination bombing by the TTP successful Pakistan’s North Waziristan territory killed 7 paramilitary troops conscionable earlier the truce expired.