KABUL : At least 10 civilians were killed and a dozen more were injured late Friday in a Pakistani strike on a border province in western Afghanistan, breaking a ceasefire that had brought two days of calm to the border.

"Pakistan has broken the ceasefire and bombed three locations in Paktika" province, a senior Taliban official told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity. "Afghanistan will retaliate."

Ten civilians were killed and 12 others wounded in the Pakistani strikes, a provincial hospital official told AFP on condition of anonymity, adding that two children were among the dead.

The 48-hour truce had paused nearly a week of bloody border clashes that killed dozens of troops and civilians on both sides.

Earlier Friday, a senior Taliban official accused Pakistan of breaking a

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