KARACHI: Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Asif and intelligence chief will be traveling to Doha today, Saturday, to hold talks with representatives of the Afghan Taliban, Pakistani state media reported, hours after another Pakistani airstrike in Afghanistan. The fierce battles between the two neighbors along their long, porous border broke out last Saturday and have led to the deaths of dozens of people on both sides, with Pakistan carrying out airstrikes in Kandahar and Kabul before a two-day truce that expired Friday evening.

Pakistan and Taliban-run Afghanistan have signed on to a temporary truce following a series of border clashes and airstrikes.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Asif has cast doubt over Islamabad’s ceasefire with Afghanistan after heavy cross-border clashes between the neighbors in recent…