Ceasefire halts deadly Afghanistan-Pakistan fighting


People injured during airstrikes amid the conflict between Afghanistan and Pakistan, get treatment at a hospital in Kabul on Oct 16. - Photo: Reuters

SPIN BOLDAK, (Afghanistan): A ceasefire along the frontier between Afghanistan and Pakistan was holding on Thursday (Oct 16), officials on both sides said, 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.

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