Published On 18/10/2025
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Last update: 05:18 (Mecca time)
A Pakistani government source said on Saturday that the Pakistani Minister of Defense and Chief of Intelligence are leading their country’s delegation in the dialogue in the Qatari capital, Doha, in light of renewed sporadic clashes despite the extension of the ceasefire with Afghanistan.
The source explained to Al Jazeera that the Afghan delegation will be similar in level of representation to the Pakistani delegation.
An Afghan official said yesterday, Friday, that a government delegation from his country went to Doha to discuss extending the ceasefire with Pakistan.
On the other hand, Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif expressed his country’s readiness for dialogue with Afghanistan to resolve the dispute between them, saying that his country had ceased fire for 48 hours “at the request of Kabul, so that they could communicate with us to implement our conditions.”
This comes after a field escalation in the border areas, as an Afghan government official confirmed to Agence France-Presse that the Pakistani army launched air strikes on areas in eastern Afghanistan, which he considered a violation of the ceasefire, stressing that “Afghanistan will respond.”
Al Jazeera Net’s correspondent in Pakistan reported, citing security sources, that the Pakistani army carried out air strikes on the districts of Argun and Barmal in Paktika Province.
Government sources from the two countries confirmed that the two parties agreed on Friday to extend the ceasefire for 48 hours, until the conclusion of the talks scheduled in Doha.
It is noteworthy that the two countries engaged in violent ground confrontations during the past days, including Pakistani air strikes across the border, some of which reached the Afghan capital, Kabul, before reaching a temporary truce that ended on Friday afternoon, and was later extended.