KABUL, Afghanistan — Pakistan and Afghanistan have been holding peace talks in Istanbul, Turkey, as a tenuous ceasefire holds following cross-border clashes that left dozens of people dead and hundreds wounded.
Here’s a look at what’s been going on between Pakistan and Afghanistan:
Clashes since early October
The fighting, which has killed civilians, security forces and militants, has been the deadliest in years between the two neighbors. It erupted after an Oct. 9 explosion in the Afghan capital, Kabul, and another in the southeastern province of Paktika the same day that Afghanistan’s Taliban-led government blamed on Pakistan.
Pakistani officials have neither confirmed nor denied involvement in the blasts, and there was no official comment from either side on whether there were any i

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