Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban administration agreed to a 48-hour cease-fire starting at 6:00 p.m. local time Wednesday, Islamabad announced, following the outbreak of renewed fighting between the neighbors.
Both Pakistan and Afghanistan will make sincere efforts, through dialogue, to find a positive solution to the complex yet resolvable issue, Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The announcement comes after Pakistani security sources said that the country carried out “precision strikes” in Kabul after dozens of troops and civilians were earlier killed in a fresh round of border skirmishes.
“Pakistan carried out precision strikes in Kandahar and Kabul provinces,” the security source told AFP, referring to the southern Afghan province that was the birthplace of the Afghan Taliban as well as the area around the capital.
Meanwhile, two explosions were heard in central Kabul on Wednesday evening, AFP journalists said.