Truce ‘broken’ says Taliban after Pakani strikes hit Afghanan | World News
A senior Taliban official has said that the truce between Afghanan and Pakan has been broken after Islamabad allegedly carried out strikes inside the country.According to Afghan media reports, Pakan allegedly bombed several civilian homes in Paktika province on Friday evening, resulting in casualties.
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Pakan attacks Afghanan
The spokesman of the Paktika Security Command told the Khama Press news agency that the Pakani military regime raided the home of a butcher in the “Khana Dar” village of the Arghon drict of Paktika, resulting in deaths and injuries to civilians.
د پکتیکا امنیه قومانداني وایي، پاکستان پر ملکي وګړو برید کړی د پکتیکا امنیې قوماندانۍ ویاند خامه پرېس خبري اژانس ته وایي، چې پاکستاني پوځي رژیم د پکتیکا ارګون ولسوالۍ د “خانه دار” کلي کي د یوه قصاب کور ویشتلی چې ملکي خلکو ته پکې مرګ ژوبله اوښتې ده.دا برید نن جمعه ماښام ناوخته… pic.twitter.com/iQreZGcWfc— Khaama Press (KP) (@khaama) October 17, 2025
Pakan airstrikes also targeted at least two more locations in Afghanan.
Khama Press further reported that Afghanan forces have initiated retaliatory attacks against Pakan.
امارت اسلامی حملات انتقامجویانه را آغاز کردمنابع تایید کردند که حملات انتقامجویانه از سوی نیروهای امارت اسلامی آغاز گردیده است.این حملات پس از آن آغاز شد که پاکستان باوجود آتش بس حملات هوایی را بر ولسوالیهای ارگون و برمل پکتیکا انجام داد. pic.twitter.com/eZTv8VTvsj— Khaama Press (KP) (@khaama) October 17, 2025
Pakan and Afghanan had agreed to extend ceasefire
The incident happened hours after Pakan and Afghanan agreed to extend their 48-hour ceasefire until the conclusion of talks in Doha.
A Pakani delegation had already arrived in Doha while an Afghan delegation was expected to reach the Qatari capital on Saturday, said the sources, who did not want to be named as they were not authorised to speak to the media.
Kabul has instructed its forces to maintain a ceasefire as long as Pakan refrained from any attack, Afghan Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid told Ariana News.
Pakan vs Afghanan
Pakan and Afghanan agreed on a temporary truce on Wednesday paused days of fierce fighting that killed dozens and wounded hundreds.
Once allies, Islamabad and Kabul engaged in fierce ground fighting, and Pakan also launched airstrikes across their contested frontier before they reached a 48-hour ceasefire.
Militant violence in Pakan has been a major irritant in its relationship with the Afghan Taliban, which returned to power in Kabul after the departure of US-led forces in 2021.
What caused the deadly attacks
The latest conflict between the two countries was triggered after Islamabad demanded that Kabul rein in militants who had stepped up attacks in Pakan, saying they operated from havens in Afghanan.
The Afghan Taliban has denied allegations that it has given haven to the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakan (TTP), also known as Pakan Taliban militants, to attack Islamabad.
The Afghan Taliban also accused the Pakani military of spreading misinformation about Afghanan, provoking border tensions, and sheltering ISIS-linked militants to undermine its stability and sovereignty.
Suicide attack in Pakan
Meanwhile, seven Pakani soldiers were killed in a suicide attack near the Afghanan border on Friday.
The soldiers came under attack in a Pakani military camp in North Waziran drict in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, and 13 were also wounded, five security officials said.
While one militant rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into the boundary wall of a fort that served as a military camp, two others tried to get into the facility and were shot dead, they said.
Six militants were killed in the suicide attack, the office of Pakani Prime Miner Shehbaz Sharif said in a statement, without providing details on the number of soldiers killed.
