Kabul:Hours before Islamabad and Kabul agreed to a 48-hour ceasefire, videos went viral on social media showing tanks racing through the streets of Afghanistan's southeastern Spin Boldak province.

The videos claimed that Taliban forces in Afghanistan had captured the said tanks from the Pakistani military during border confrontations on Wednesday. 

In a statement shared on X, Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid also claimed that Afghan forces returned Pakistani fire in border areas, killing "a large number" of Pakistani soldiers, seizing "Pakistani weapons and tanks" and destroying Pakistani military installations.

Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif, during an interview with Geo News, said, "They are showing videos claiming they have captured a Pakistani tank; we do not have those tanks in our inventory. They probably bought it from some junk dealer."

NDTV, however, could not verify the authenticity of the video of the claim. A quick AI search, however, showed that the vehicle in the video was a Soviet-era T-55 tank, which has been in Afghanistan's inventory since the 1980s. 

A ceasefire along the frontier between Afghanistan and Pakistan was holding on Thursday, after dozens of troops and civilians were killed in cross-border clashes over the weekend.

Source:Ndtv