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Pakistan on Wednesday announced an Eid ceasefire in its ongoing conflict with Afghanistan, signalling a temporary pause in weeks of escalating cross-border strikes , air raids and drone attacks between the two neighbours.The ceasefire announcement comes after a sharp rise in hostilities that has left dozens dead and displaced thousands along the Afghanistan–Pakistan border.The conflict reached its most intense phase earlier this week when a Pakistani airstrike struck a drug rehabilitation facility in Kabul late Monday night. The attack killed dozens of people and was described as the deadliest single incident since the latest round of fighting began.The strike came amid a broader campaign by Pakistan targeting locations in Afghanistan that Islamabad says are linked to militants responsible for attacks inside Pakistan.Since February, Pakistan has carried out multiple airstrikes across Afghanistan, targeting sites in the capital Kabul and in Kandahar, a southern city where the Taliban’s supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada is based.Afghanistan has responded with drone strikes and cross-border raids on Pakistani military posts.The fighting follows months of tension along the shared frontier. The two countries had earlier agreed to a ceasefire in October after weeks of clashes that killed dozens of people and injured hundreds, but that truce eventually broke down.The latest violence has had severe humanitarian consequences.According to the United Nations, Pakistani airstrikes have hit military targets but have also struck residential areas, civilian infrastructure and more than 20 healthcare facilities across Afghanistan.At least 75 civilians have been killed and around 115,000 people have been displaced as a result of the fighting, the UN said.