Pakistani and Afghan officials met in Doha on Saturday to discuss immediate steps to curb cross-border clashes and restore stability along their shared border.
According to Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Qatar mediated the talks, Bloomberg reported.
The neighboring countries reached an uneasy 48-hour ceasefire on Wednesday following last week’s deadly cross-border attack. The governments in Kabul and Islamabad have accused each other of provoking hostilities, the worst since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in 2021.
Afghan officials said Saturday that Pakistan had launched airstrikes into Afghanistan, killing at least 10 people and breaking a ceasefire that had brought relative calm on the border for two days.
In Pakistan, a senior security official told AFP that troops had “conducted precision airstrikes” targeting the Hafiz Gul Bahadur group, a local faction linked to the Pakistan Taliban (TTP), in border areas with Afghanistan.
Islamabad said the same group carried out a suicide bombing and gun attack on a military camp in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas district, which borders Afghanistan, killing seven Pakistani paramilitary soldiers.
The Taliban denied Pakistan’s accusations that it harbors militants led by the Pakistani Taliban.