Why Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban are fighting and what happens next - In October, Pakistan and Afghanistan had announce ceasefire after days of intense attacks

Pakistan’s military launched strikes along the border with Afghanistan early on Sunday, claiming to have killed at least 70 militants in what it described as targeted operations

Pakistan on late Saturday night carried out intelligence-based strikes against terrorist camps inside Afghanistan, in a retributive response to a string of deadly suicide bombings, including an attack on an Imambargah in Islamabad and multiple blasts in Bajaur and Bannu during the holy month of Ramazan.

In Afghanistan, Taliban regime has completely failed to provide security to foreign nationals. According to a researcher at the Stimson Institute in the United States Afghan Taliban regime has completely failed to protect Chinese workers from attacks by local militants.

Returns have strained resources in a country that was already struggling to cope with a weak economy and the effects of a severe drought and two devastating earthquakes.

Trucks have been stuck at the closed border since October. Both countries are facing economic losses with no end in sight. The Taliban also banned all Pakistani pharmaceutical imports to Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is facing a surging child malnutrition crisis as aid cuts leave most families without food or treatment.