Overview
- Qatar’s foreign ministry said both sides agreed to an immediate ceasefire and set up mechanisms for follow-up, with additional meetings planned to sustain the truce.
- Pakistan’s defence minister confirmed the ceasefire and said delegations would meet again, with Pakistani statements pointing to further talks this week.
- Afghan and local officials reported Pakistani airstrikes in Paktika’s Urgun and Barmal districts that killed at least 10 people, including three local cricketers, though casualty details remain contested.
- The Afghanistan Cricket Board identified the players as Kabeer, Sibghatullah, and Haroon and withdrew the national team from November’s Pakistan-hosted T20 tri-series with Sri Lanka.
- Pakistani security sources said the strikes targeted militant hideouts linked to the Hafiz Gul Bahadur group after a deadly attack in North Waziristan, a claim Afghan authorities reject as a violation of sovereignty and the earlier truce.