TIMELINE: Pakistan, Afghanistan to pause fighting for Eid amid dispute over Kabul bombing

Record ID: 2367249

  • Title: TIMELINE: Pakistan, Afghanistan to pause fighting for Eid amid dispute over Kabul bombing
  • Date: 16th October 2025
  • Summary: Charred debris littered the compound of the Kabul hospital on Tuesday (March 17) morning that the Afghan Taliban said was hit by a Pakistani air strike the night before. Smoke was seen rising from some of the structures, with a few of them blackened. Some buildings were also reduced to heaps of wood and metal, with only a number of bunk beds still intact and personal belon
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  • Keywords: Afghanistan Islamabad Kabul Kandahar Pakistan Taliban border conflict ceasefire explosions militants truce
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  • Country: Various
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Military Conflicts
  • Reuters ID: LVA006408516102025RP1
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    Pakistan and Afghanistan said they were pausing their military operations against each other on Wednesday (March 18) for the Islamic festival of Eid-al-Fitr, a surprise move two days after a drug rehab centre in Kabul was hit in the deadliest strike in months.
    The Afghan Taliban government has said that more than 400 people were killed and 265 wounded in the airstrike that took place on Monday night (March 16), just as people and staff at the centre were praying.
    The casualty numbers shared by authorities have not been independently verified. The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said on Wednesday that 143 people were killed and 119 wounded in the attack.
    Pakistan rejected the Taliban's statements about the strike, saying it had "precisely targeted military installations and terrorist support infrastructure."
    (Production: Ariel Wee, Salah Uddin, Yawar Afzal Malik, Jeremy Frost, Ahmad Masih, Timothy Sim, Lion Schellerer, Yogendran Sandiran, Abdul Khaliq Achakzai, Salah Uddin, Yawar Afzal Malik,  Arooba Charakla, Fayaz Aziz, Waseem Fattani, Shung Sin Tan, Keval Singh, Daniel Lim, Mark Ho)
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