A temporary ceasefire has been agreed to after border violence escalated between Pakistan and Afghanistan over the weekend as both sides blame each other for attacks.

Despite the challenges to peace, both know they will hurt from continued hostilities – and need a path to peace.

The leader of the Pakistani Taliban appeared in a video Thursday to prove he was still alive, a week after an apparent attempt to assassinate him with an airstrike in Afghanistan provoked the most serious clash between the neighbours in decades.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said the Taliban regime in Afghanistan recently launched an unprovoked attack on Pakistan at India’s behest as the neighbouring countries faced

Pakistan’s military, long seen as the backbone of its state power, remains large but increasingly hollowed out by corruption, low morale, and overreliance on China.

The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the Pakistani version of the Taliban, ramps up attacks inside Pakistan. In response, Pakistan’s government demands that its equivalent in Afghanistan, headed by the Taliban,

BBC Verify has been analysing satellite imagery throughout the day, first examining flooding in Mexico and later strike damage at an oil plant in Russia-occupied Crimea.

The ceasefire, brokered late on Wednesday with mediation from Qatar and Saudi Arabia, reportedly came after Pakistan pleaded with the two nations to intervene.