Pakistan and Afghanistan have decided to temporarily halt their clashes on the Muslim festivity of Eid, after deadly airstrikes in Kabul this week sparked global alarm and calls for a ceasefire.
Ruins of a drug rehabilitation hospital following an airstrike in Kabul on March 17. Photographer: Sami Jan/Sami Jan/picture-alliance/dpa
Afghanistan’s Taliban government said at least 400 people were killed by Pakistani airstrikes on a drug treatment hospital in Kabul, marking a dramatic escalation in the conflict between the neighbors.
Afghan firefighters and Taliban security personnel work to extinguish a fire at the Secondary Rehabilitation Services Centre in Kabul on March 16. Photographer: Wakil Kohsar/AFP/Getty Images
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