A Pakistani delegation had already arrived in Doha while an Afghan delegation was expected to reach the Qatari capital on Saturday, said the sources, who did not want to be named as they were not authorised to speak to the media, Reuters wrote on Friday night.
Word of the truce extension emerged just hours after a deadly suicide attack near the Afghan border killed seven Pakistani soldiers and wounded 13 others, underscoring the fragility of the situation.
Pakistani security officials said militants attacked a military camp in North Waziristan district, with one attacker ramming an explosive-laden vehicle into the boundary wall and two others attempting to storm the facility before being shot dead. Six militants were killed in the assault, according to a statement from the office of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
Later in the day, Afghan Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid told Ariana News, a Pashto language local television news channel, that Kabul had instructed its forces to maintain a ceasefire as long as Pakistan refrained from any attack.
Within hours of the truce extension, a police spokesman Mohammad Ismail Mawia in Afghanistan's Paktika province said Pakistan conducted airstrikes in Barmal and Urgun districts.
He did not give details of the casualties.
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