The pause in fighting is only the second of its kind in the country's nearly 19-year-old war. FMTNews
Security forces stand guard during the first day of Eid in Kabul on Sunday.
President Ashraf Ghani said his administration was also ready to hold peace talks with the Taliban, seen as key to ending the war in the impoverished country. The current ceasefire is the first initiated by the Taliban. The only other comparable pause came over Eid in 2018, and was first offered by Ghani.
There were no reports of fighting from Kandahar, once a bastion for the Taliban, and the southeast province of Khost was also peaceful, police said. He said earlier that authorities were also investigating a mortar attack a day before in Laghman province that killed five civilians.
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