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Afghan And Pakistani the delegation is going Qatari capital Doha Dozens of people on both sides were killed and hundreds injured after more than a week of fighting, igniting the deadliest crisis between them in several years.
The Taliban government said on Saturday that the Afghan delegation included the defense minister and the head of the national intelligence agency. National broadcaster PTV had said a day earlier that a Pakistani delegation was leaving on Saturday. It did not give further details.
Each country says it is responding to the other’s aggression. Pakistan has accused Afghanistan of harboring terrorists carrying out attacks in the border areas, but the country’s Taliban government has rejected this allegation.
A 48-hour ceasefire aimed at stopping hostilities ended on Friday evening. A few hours later, Pakistan attacked across the border.
Pakistani security officials confirmed to The Associated Press that the attacks hit Urgun and Barmal – districts in Afghanistan’s eastern Paktika province.
The targets were hideouts of the terrorist Hafiz Gul Bahadur group, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. He did not mention the number of casualties.
An official said the operation was a direct response to a suicide attack on a security forces compound in Mir Ali in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province a day earlier.
Afghan officials said at least 10 people, including women and children, were killed in the air strikes. The attacks prompted the National Cricket Board to boycott the upcoming series in Pakistan.
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Associated Press writers Abdul Qahar Afghan and Sajjad Tarakzai in Jalalabad, Afghanistan islamabad Contributed to this report.