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Afghans return home to rubble, hoping truce holds with Pakistan

Afghan workers remove debris from a house, which was damaged after an air strike during cross-border clashes between Afghanistan and Pakistan, in Kabul on October 16, 2025. [AFP]

Abdul Rahim surveys the rubble that was his home in Kabul, where he lived with six family members.

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