Pakistani and Afghan officials will hold crisis talks in Doha, Qatar on Saturday as violence continues despite truce.

Pakistan has launched air attacks inside Afghanistan, killing at least 10 people and breaking a ceasefire that had brought two days of relative calm to the border after an intensive period of bloodshed, Afghan officials say.

The 48-hour truce paused nearly a week of bloody border clashes that killed dozens of soldiers and civilians on both sides.

“Pakistan has broken the ceasefire and bombed three locations in Paktika” province late on Friday, a senior Taliban official told the AFP news agency, speaking on condition of anonymi

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