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Tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan spike as truce about to expire
The Island
|October 18, 2025
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(Al Jazeera) Tensions are mounting between Pakistan and Afghanistan amid reports of a brutal border attack on the former’s troops as a fragile truce between the neighbours, and once allies, nears its expiry.
A 48-hour ceasefire between the two sides, which came into effect this week after days of bloody cross-border attacks, is set to expire at 13:00 GMT on Friday.
As the end of the truce approached, Pakistani police official Irfan Ali said a suicide car bomber backed by Pakistan Taliban, known by the acronym TTP, attacked a military compound in Mir Ali, a city in North Waziristan district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Accounts of losses suffered during the attack varied.
The official, quoted by news agency The Associated Press, said three fighters were killed in an intense shootout and did not report any troop casualties.
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