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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Friday welcomed the agreement reached between Russia and the United States (US) for a nationwide cessation of hostilities to begin in Syria from Feb 27, said the Foreign Office (FO) in a statement.

MUNICH: Major powers agreed on Friday to a "cessation of hostilities" in Syria to begin in a week, doing nothing in the meantime to halt Russian bombing poised to give government forces their biggest victory of the five-year-old war.