New Delhi : Pakistan and Afghanistan’s Taliban administration have agreed to a temporary 48-hour ceasefire starting at 6:00 p.m. local time (1300 GMT) on Wednesday, Islamabad announced, after intense fighting broke out along their shared border.

Truce follows deadly border clashes

Pakistan’s foreign ministry said both sides would make “sincere efforts” through dialogue to seek a “positive solution to the complex yet resolvable issue.”

The announcement came after at least eight Pakistani soldiers and 12 Afghan civilians were killed in cross-border firing late Tuesday near the Mahmoodzai post in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The latest clashes erupted days after a fragile truce brokered by Saudi Arabia and Qatar collapsed.

Officials described the violence as the worst confront

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