Suicide car bomber strikes in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa amid unconfirmed reports that Qatar has offered to host peace talks.

Tensions are mounting between Pakistan and Afghanistan amid reports of a brutal border attack on the former’s troops as a fragile temporary truce between the neighbours, and once allies, has expired.

A 48-hour ceasefire between the two sides, which came into effect this week after days of bloody cross-border attacks, is expired at 13:00 GMT on Friday.

As the end of the truce approached, Pakistani police official Irfan Ali sai

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