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Pakistan's overseas curate said Monday (March 23, 2026) that the state remains committed to "eradicating the menace of terrorism", arsenic the timepiece ticked down to the extremity of a impermanent ceasefire with Afghanistan.
Both countries past Wednesday (March 18, 2026) announced a halt to weeks of hostilities for the Id al-Fitr vacation marking the extremity of Ramadan, agreeing to a impermanent ceasefire until midnight Monday.
But successful a connection to people Pakistan Day, a nationalist holiday, Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar indicated that the country's attack to the struggle had not changed.
"Pakistan remains firmly committed to eradicate the menace of terrorism," helium said successful a statement. "Pakistan's actions wrong Afghanistan... are directed towards this goal."
On Sunday, the Taliban authorities and a aesculapian root said 1 idiosyncratic was killed by a mortar ammunition fired by Pakistan successful the eastbound borderline state of Kunar.
Afghanistan and Pakistan person been locked successful struggle for months implicit claims from Islamabad that Kabul is harbouring extremists down cross-border attacks connected its territory.
The Taliban authorities contradict the claim.
In his ain Pakistan Day message, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif connected Monday said subject enactment wrong Afghanistan was "a awesome of our nationalist resoluteness against terrorism".
"We volition not let immoderate harm to the bid and information of our country," helium added.
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The Id truce came aft a Pakistani onslaught connected a cause rehabilitation centre successful Kabul past Monday, which Afghan authorities said killed much than 400.
The Norwegian Refugee Council, an planetary NGO, said the pursuing time that "hundreds" were killed and injured.
Interior Ministry spokesperson Abdul Mateen Qani told AFP on Monday that recognition of the bodies was inactive ongoing and caller funerals were expected to instrumentality spot successful the coming days.
About 50 bodies were buried successful a wide sedate successful Kabul past Wednesday (March 18, 2026).
On Saturday (March 21, 2026), the Afghan Health Ministry called connected families to interaction the forensic medicine section to assistance place "dozens of bodies".
The UN assistance ngo successful Afghanistan (UNAMA) connected Monday (March 23, 2026)said preliminary figures from their probe indicated that determination were 143 killed and 119 wounded.
But a spokesperson told AFP the toll was apt to increase, with the process slowed by difficulties successful identifying immoderate bodies.
According to a UN toll past Tuesday (March 17, 2026), not taking into relationship the cause rehabilitation centre strike, astatine slightest 76 Afghan civilians person been killed successful the warring since it intensified connected February 26.
More than 115,000 radical person been displaced successful Afghanistan, it added.
"The calls for a ceasefire continue... China has offered to mediate and the Secretary General has said that helium would enactment specified a mediation," the UNAMA spokesperson said.
