Afghanistan and Pakistan will hold peace talks in Doha on Saturday, both sides said, after the South Asia neighbours extended a ceasefire following a week of fierce border clashes.
Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to extend their 48-hour ceasefire until the conclusion of peace talks expected to begin on Saturday in Doha, Qatar, following days of border clashes.
Afghanistan’s Foreign Minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, returned to Kabul on Wednesday from an all important, week-long official visit to India.
Renewed border clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan have left at least 18 people dead and more than 360 injured, the United Nations has reported, amid growing calls for an urgent ceasefire to protect civilians.
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Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban administration have agreed to a temporary ceasefire for 48 hours starting 6:00 p.m. Pakistan local time (1300 GMT) on Wednesday, Islamabad said, after fresh clashes erupted between the neighbours.
Tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan are showing no signs of waning after a weekend of clashes on the volatile Afghan border between the security forces of the two countries.
Afghanistan’s foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi has said that certain groups in Pakistan are working to harm relations between Kabul and Islamabad.
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Dozens of fighters were killed in overnight border clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan, both sides said on 12 October, in the most serious fighting between the neighbours since the Taliban came to power in Kabul.
Kabul was rocked by a powerful explosion late Thursday night, with multiple witnesses reporting the sound of fighter jets flying over the city’s airspace.
Several explosions and bursts of gunfire were reported in Kabul late Thursday, according to local media and residents, with the cause and possible casualties still unclear.
New restrictions have been reported on some social media platforms in Afghanistan, barely a week after a two-day nationwide blackout disrupted internet and telecommunications services in the country.
The 7th Moscow Format Consultations on Afghanistan has concluded in Russia with participants issuing a joint statement heavily hinting at a joint opposition to any foreign military infrastructure in Afghanistan.
Iran says one million undocumented Afghan refugees have returned to their country with the majority of them voluntarily in the last six and half months criticising the international donors for their less-than-savoury contribution to the refugee programmes.
The Taliban have once again reiterated their stance on the Bagram air base, stating that no one will be allowed to take control of it.
Afghanistan’s Minister of Industry and Commerce, Nuruddin Azizi, met with Turkish envoy, Ambassador Cenk Ünal in Kabul on Sunday 5th October to discuss matters of mutual economic importance.
Cell phone and internet services were restored in Afghanistan on Wednesday, local residents said - around 48 hours after diplomatic and industry sources said connectivity was abruptly cut on the orders of the Taliban administration.
Local customs authorities at Iran’s Dogharoun crossing bordering Afghanistan said hundreds of the Iranian and Afghan drivers and their trucks are held up at the border point and are unable to exit because of the Internet blackout across Afghanistan.
Cell phone and internet services were restored in Afghanistan on Wednesday, local residents said, some 48 hours after diplomatic and industry sources said connectivity was abruptly cut on the orders of the Taliban administration.
Afghans living in Europe said on Tuesday they were nervous with no news from their families after internet and mobile phone services were cut by the Taliban in Afghanistan, according to diplomatic and industry sources.
Internet and phone networks across Afghanistan have been shut down since Monday evening, leaving millions of people disconnected from each other and from the rest of the world
Afghanistan's internet and mobile telephone services were down nationwide on Tuesday, residents and monitoring services said, but the Taliban administration offered no immediate explanation.
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