Islamabad, Pakistan – Less than two hours after a suicide blast at the entrance of the district court in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad on Tuesday, Khawaja Asif, the country’s defence minister, called the attack a “wake-up call” and “ a war for all of Pakistan ”.

“The rulers of Kabul can stop terrorism in Pakistan, but bringing this war all the way to Islamabad is a message from Kabul, to which, praise be to God, Pakistan has the full strength to respond,” he wrote on his X account .

After a week of deadly fighting on their border in October, Pakistan and Afghanistan had signed a ceasefire agreement in Doha , with Asif and his Afghan counterpart Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob inking the pact.

But that was followed by two unsuccessful rounds of talks in Istanbul aimed at cementing the c

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