Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to temporarily suspend fighting during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, both countries announced days after dozens were killed at a Kabul drug rehabilitation hospital.

Pakistan announced on Wednesday a pause in strikes against Afghanistan, saying the decision was made ahead of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr at the request of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey. In a statement,

Pakistan and Afghanistan on Wednesday declared a temporary pause in escalating fighting, two days after Kabul blamed Islamabad for a deadly airstrike in the Afghan capital that it said killed hundreds of people at a drug rehabilitation hospital.

Pakistan and Afghanistan agree Eid ceasefire as Kabul holds mass funeral for airstrike victims - Five-day truce has been brokered by Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar

Afghanistan’s deputy government spokesman said early Tuesday the death toll from an airstrike by Pakistan that hit a hospital treating drug users in the Afghan capital Kabul has increased to 400. Residents and volunteers inspect the site of a late-Monday airstrike at a drug rehabilitation hospital in Kabul,

Amid deepening conflict in the Middle East, the overlooked conflict between Afghanistan and Pakistan is intensifying—and de-escalation looks very unlikely. On Tuesday, the Taliban regime accused Pakistan of bombing a hospital in Kabul,

According to deputy government spokesperson Hamdullah Fitrat, about 250 more people were reported injured.in the airstrike that hit the hospital around 9 pm local time, destroying large sections of the 2,

Pakistan has been the Afghan Taliban's closest friend for decades. It was Islamabad that helped give birth to the Taliban in the early 1990s – as a way to give Pakistan "strategic depth" in its rivalry with India.