Pakistan and Afghanistan announced this Wednesday a truce during the holiday that marks the end of Ramadan in the conflict that has been going on for several weeks and that left hundreds dead this week.
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Pakistan’s Information Minister, Attaullah Tarar, said that this truce, which runs from Thursday until midnight Monday local time, occurred “at the request of friendly Islamic countries, such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Türkiye“.
“Pakistan made this gesture of good faith and in accordance with Islamic rules“, he wrote in
Shortly after, Afghan government spokesman Zabiullah announced a “temporary cessation” of what he defined as “defensive operations to repel injustice.”
The senior Afghan official also mentioned that the gesture had been requested by Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Türkiye.
Meanwhile, in Kabul, the Afghan capital, funerals took place for some of the hundreds of victims of a Pakistani attack. against a drug detox center in Kabul, to which the Taliban government promised retaliation.
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Tensions between both countries
On a hillside outside Kabul, and in the rain, volunteers from the Afghan Red Crescent They transported dozens of wooden coffins from a fleet of ambulances to a mass grave, dug into the rocky terrain by large excavators.
Next to the grave, Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani said that the deceased were innocent victims. attacked by “criminals”, a few days before the end of Ramadan.
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“Today was a sad day. I gave my deepest condolences to Afghanistanespecially to the families of the martyrs,” they told the attendees.
Pakistan, which denied having deliberately bombed the center, accused Kabul of harboring extremists who later attacked its territory. although Afghanistan denied it.
(With information from AFP)
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