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Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to an immediate ceasefire and setting up of ‘mechanisms’ to ensure lasting peace after days of violent clashes along the border that left several soldiers, civilians, and terrorists dead on both sides, officials said .
According to PTI, The breakthrough came following negotiations between Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif and Afghanistan’s acting Defence Minister Mullah Yaqoob in Doha, facilitated by Qatar and Turkiye, according to a statement issued by Qatar’s Foreign Ministry.
“During the negotiation, both sides agreed to an immediate ceasefire and establishment of mechanisms to consolidate lasting peace and stability between the two countries,” the statement read.
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The two neighbours also agreed to hold ‘follow-up meetings’ in the coming days to ensure the ‘implementation’ and ‘sustainability’ of the truce ‘in a reliable and sustainable manner’ to achieve security and stability in both countries, it said.
The development comes amid heightened tensions along the Pak-Afghan border, triggered by cross-border clashes after alleged Pakistani airstrikes near Kabul last week.
The Doha talks began on Saturday with Pakistan urging the Afghan Taliban authorities to take ‘verifiable action’ against the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which Islamabad accuses of launching cross-border terrorist attacks from Afghan soil.
Earlier, Amid escalating hostilities between Afghanistan and Pakistan, United States President Donald Trump claimed that the conflict between the two countries will be an ‘easy’ one for him to solve, ‘if’ he had to solve it.
While speaking to the media during a bilateral lunch with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on Friday, Trump said, “I do understand Pakistan attacked or there is an attack going on with Afghanistan, that’s an easy one for me to solve if I have to solve that.”
