{"id":3369,"date":"2025-10-18T11:38:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T11:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/10\/18\/afghanistan-accuses-pakistan-of-breaking-truce-as-10-killed-in-air-attacks\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T11:38:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T11:38:25","slug":"afghanistan-accuses-pakistan-of-breaking-truce-as-10-killed-in-air-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/10\/18\/afghanistan-accuses-pakistan-of-breaking-truce-as-10-killed-in-air-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan accuses Pakistan of breaking truce as 10 killed in air attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>Pakistan has launched air attacks inside Afghanistan, killing at least 10 people and breaking a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/gallery\/2025\/10\/16\/afghanistan-pakistan-enter-48-hour-truce-after-deadly-border-clashes\">ceasefire<\/a> that had brought two days of relative calm to the border after an intensive period of bloodshed, Afghan officials say.<\/p>\n<p>The 48-hour truce paused nearly a week of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/10\/17\/tensions-between-pakistan-and-afghanistan-spike-as-truce-about-to-expire\">bloody border clashes<\/a> that killed dozens of soldiers and civilians on both sides.<\/p>\n<section>\n<h2>Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n<p><span>list of 4 items<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>list 1 of 4<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/10\/17\/tensions-between-pakistan-and-afghanistan-spike-as-truce-about-to-expire\">Tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan spike as truce is extended<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 2 of 4<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/10\/16\/analysis-why-pakistan-and-the-taliban-wont-find-it-easy-to-patch-up\">Analysis: Why Pakistan and the Taliban won\u2019t find it easy to patch up<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 3 of 4<\/span><a 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an Afghan government spokesperson said officials from both countries will hold crisis talks in Doha on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs promised, negotiations with the Pakistani side will take place today in Doha,\u201d Zabihullah Mujahid said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>A high-level Afghan delegation, led by the Minister of Defence Mullah Muhammad Yaqoob, has left for Doha, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Pakistani state TV reported that\u00a0Defence Minister Khawaja Asif and intelligence chief General Asim Malik will be heading to Doha on Saturday for talks with the Afghan Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Saturday, the Afghanistan Cricket Board said in a statement that three players who were in the region for a tournament were killed in the latest air strikes alongside five other people \u201cin a cowardly attack carried out by the Pakistani regime\u201d and said seven others were injured.<\/p>\n<p>The ACB said in a post on social media on Saturday that the cricketers were \u201ctargeted during a gathering\u201d in Urgun district when they returned home after playing a friendly cricket match in Sharana, the capital of Paktika province.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ACB considers this a great loss for Afghanistan\u2019s sports community, its athletes, and the cricketing family,\u201d the ACB said.<\/p>\n<p>It also said it was withdrawing from the upcoming Tri-Nation T20I Series involving Pakistan, scheduled for next month.<\/p>\n<p>In Pakistan, a senior security official told AFP that forces had \u201cconducted precision aerial strikes\u201d in Afghan border areas targeting the Hafiz Gul Bahadur Group, a local faction linked to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/10\/15\/new-normal-is-pakistan-trying-to-set-new-red-lines-with-afghan-taliban\">Pakistan Taliban<\/a> (TTP).<\/p>\n<p>Islamabad said the same group had been involved in a suicide bombing and gun attack at a military camp in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas district that borders Afghanistan, killing seven Pakistani paramilitary troops.<\/p>\n<p>Security issues are at the heart of the tensions, with Pakistan accusing Afghanistan of harbouring armed groups led by the Pakistan Taliban, known by its acronym TTP, on its soil, a claim Kabul denies.<\/p>\n<p>The cross-border violence had escalated dramatically since last Saturday, days after explosions rocked the Afghan capital, Kabul, just as the Taliban\u2019s foreign minister began an unprecedented visit to India, Pakistan\u2019s longtime rival.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban then launched an offensive along parts of its southern border with Pakistan, prompting Islamabad to say it would launch a strong response of its own.<\/p>\n<p>When the truce began at 13:00 GMT on Wednesday, Islamabad said it was to last 48 hours, but Kabul said the ceasefire would remain in effect until Pakistan violated it.<\/p>\n<p>Before the latest strikes, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan said 37 people were killed and 425 wounded on the Afghan side of the border, calling on both sides to bring a lasting end to hostilities.<\/p>\n<p>In Spin Boldak, the scene of intense fighting, hundreds of people attended funerals on Thursday, including for children whose bodies were wrapped in white shrouds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople have mixed feelings,\u201d Nematullah, 42, told AFP. \u201cThey fear that the fighting will resume, but they still leave their homes and go about their business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But earlier on Friday, residents described scenes of normalcy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything is fine, everything is open,\u201d Nani, 35, told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not afraid, but everyone sees things differently. Some say they\u2019re going to send their children elsewhere as the situation isn\u2019t good, but I don\u2019t think anything will happen,\u201d said Nani, who did not give a surname.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan has launched air attacks inside Afghanistan, killing at least 10 people and breaking a ceasefire that had brought two days of relative calm to the border after an intensive period of bloodshed, Afghan officials say. 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