On Wednesday, Pakistan proclaimed a "temporary pause" in hostilities with Afghanistan to commemorate the end of Ramadan, after Kabul threatened to revenge the lives of hundreds murdered in an attack on a Kabul drug treatment center.
Information minister Attaullah Tarar stated that "brotherly Islamic countries" Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey sought a stop in operations from Thursday to Monday for Eid."Pakistan makes this gesture in good faith and in accordance with Islamic principles," he wrote on X.
He did caution: "In case of any cross-border attack, drone attack or any terrorist incident inside Pakistan, (operations) shall immediately resume with renewed intensity."There was no quick response from Taliban officials.
Pakistani warplanes hit a drug rehabilitation center in the Afghan capital on Monday night, the bloodiest attack in the two countries' intensifying conflict.
The Taliban authorities claim that over 400 people were murdered and more than 200 were injured, while the government in Islamabad denied Kabul's claims of a planned strike.
Pakistan accuses Kabul of harbouring militants who carry out cross-border assaults on its territory. Afghanistan denies doing this.Mass funeral.
Earlier on Wednesday afternoon, a mass funeral for some of the victims of Monday's strike was held on a rain-soaked mountainside above Kabul.
Volunteers from the Afghan Red Crescent Society transported dozens of basic wooden coffins from a fleet of ambulances to a mass burial made in the rocky ground by large excavators.

Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani stated at the gravesite that the innocent souls were targeted by "criminals" just before the conclusion of the Muslim holy month.We will get revenge," he added, warning those responsible for Monday night's bombing: "We are not weak and defenseless. "You will face the consequences of your crimes."
However, Haqqani, who had a $10 million US bounty on his head until last year, suggested that discussions were the government's preferred way to end the conflict.We don't want war, but the environment has led to it," he remarked. "So, we are trying to solve the problems through diplomacy."
Abdul Mateen Qani, spokesman for the Interior Ministry, stated that the ceremony was for identifiable victims. Some had been sent to their native provinces for burial.

The identification of more casualties was still ongoing, he said.
Sharafat Zaman, a health ministry official, told AFP that 50 coffins were delivered to the Kabul site on Wednesday.
Identification
Obtaining quick independent confirmation of accurate fatality numbers in Afghanistan and Pakistan is challenging due to assaults in remote areas and conflicting reports.
On Monday evening and Tuesday morning, AFP correspondents on the site saw at least 95 victims pulled from the ruins of the destroyed building.
The Norwegian Refugee Council, a humanitarian NGO, has teams on the ground in Afghanistan, according to Jacopo Caridi, its country director.According to what we witnessed and what we discussed with those involved in the (emergency) response, there were hundreds of people murdered and injured," he told AFP.

Recovery of victims has been difficult due to rubble and damaged structures. Caridi described the scene as "shocking," making identification more difficult.I noticed a finger in one area, a foot in another, and a hand in one. "It was really horrible," Caridi added.
Mediation stalled.
Afghanistan and Pakistan have faced calls for an urgent halt to the fighting, with the overall civilian death toll rising and concerns for those displaced.
Prior to Monday's strike, the UN reported that at least 76 Afghan civilians had been killed in combat since February 26 and that more than 115,000 people had been displaced.

However, mediation efforts have been ineffective thus far.
Since the launch of US-Israeli assaults on Iran last month, the Gulf countries, which spearheaded early efforts, have moved their attention to the crisis in their own backyard.
China has dispatched a special envoy to mediate and has promised to play a "constructive role in de-escalating tensions".
Russia's special representative for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, stated that Moscow "will be ready" to facilitate discussions if both parties seek it."So far, this has not occurred," he told pro-Kremlin newspaper Izvestia.