After a series of back-to-back deadly skirmishes and bombings by Afghan and Pakistani forces for nearly two weeks in October, an uneasy ceasefire was put in place between the two countries on October 30 .

Representatives of the two sides met in Istanbul where Turkish and Qatari officials acted as mediators and ceasefire guarantors. This was the first time in over a year that hostilities broke out between Pakistan and Afghanistan, where, in the backdrop of the American war-on-terror policy, Islamabad allied with US forces to hit the Taliban regime and the Al Qaeda network.

The war on terror officially ended when the last of the US forces pulled out of Afghanistan in August 2021 , by which time the Taliban was back in the saddle in Kabul. Since then, an unlikely player, Ind

See Full Page