T he deadliest week on the Durand Line since 2021 has ended with an immediate ceasefire agreed in Doha under Qatari and Turkish mediation on Saturday. Before the truce, there was a grim sequence of events—Pakistan’s unprecedented strikes on Kabul, intense cross-Durand line fire exchanges, closures of Torkham and Chaman crossings, and later bombing in Paktika, where an airstrike killed civilians, including three young Afghan cricketers Kabeer Agha, Sibghatullah and Haroon, prompting Afghanistan’s withdrawal from a planned tri-series in Pakistan.

The deadly clashes that began with Pakistan’s bombing of Kabul for the first time in history on 9 October, apparently targeting Noor Wali Mehsud, the leader of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), brought relations to their lowest point afte

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