Ceasefire Halts Deadly Afghanistan-Pakistan Fighting

Fuente: International Business Times

The truce announcement was preceded by more explosions in the Afghan capital, which the Taliban government did not attribute to Pakistan AFP A ceasefire along the frontier between Afghanistan and Pakistan was holding on Thursday, after dozens of troops and civilians were killed in cross-border clashes. In Spin Boldak, a focal point of recent clashes on the Afghan side, an AFP journalist saw shops reopening and residents returning to homes they had fled during the fighting. The 48-hour ceasefire was aimed at allowing time to "find a positive solution.