Overview

• Both sides signed an immediate truce in Doha, with Qatar announcing mechanisms intended to support durable stability.
• Follow-up talks are set for October 25 in Istanbul to verify implementation and reinforce the ceasefire.
• Pakistan conducted airstrikes in Afghanistan, including in Paktika, which Islamabad said targeted Gul Bahadur fighters and Kabul said killed civilians including eight cricketers.
• The Taliban sent a high-level delegation led by Defence Minister Mawlawi Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid and ordered its forces to refrain from new operations during the talks.
• Pakistan accuses Kabul of harboring TTP militants and says Afghanistan pledged not to support groups attacking Pakistan, while both governments issued conflicting death tolls from recent fighting.