A day after the Afghan government accused Islamabad of killing 400 people in an attack on a rehabilitation hospital in Kabul, Pakistan and Afghanistan on Wednesday announced a temporary pause in fighting in view of Eid al-Fitr and at the request of Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar. Pakistan’s Information Minister Ataullah Tardar made this announcement in a post on ‘X’. The announcement came hours after his country launched new attacks on alleged Taliban targets in the border area. He said, in view of the upcoming Islamic festival of Eid-ul-Fitr, on its own initiative as well as at the request of ‘brotherly Islamic countries’ like Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey, Pakistan has decided to announce a temporary halt amid the ongoing ‘Operation Ghazab-lil-Haq’.
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World Updates: Pakistan and Afghanistan announce temporary halt in attacks on each other
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