Pak resumes military ops against Afghanistan after temporary pause due to Eid

Islamabad (TIP): Pakistan’s military resumed operations against Afghanistan after a temporary pause, Pakistan’s foreign ministry said on Thursday, March 26, dashing hopes of a permanent ceasefire.
Pakistan and Afghanistan’s worst fighting in years erupted last month, claiming heavy human losses on both sides. Kabul said more than 400 people were killed in a Pakistani air strike on a drug rehabilitation centre in the Afghan capital last week before the neighbours suspended fighting.
Pakistan rejected the Taliban’s statements about the strike, saying it had “precisely targeted military installations and terrorist support infrastructure”.
A pause in hostilities was announced for the Islamic festival of Eid al-Fitr, which Islamabad says was also requested by Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. “The pause has concluded midnight between, I think, 23rd and 24th March,” said Tahir Andrabi, the spokesperson at a weekly foreign ministry briefing in Islamabad.
He said the operations would continue until the objectives are achieved, and until the Afghan Taliban administration reviewed what he called its misplaced priority of supporting terrorist infrastructure.