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China connected Monday (October 13, 2025) urged Pakistan and Afghanistan to workout restraint and resoluteness their communal concerns done dialog and consultations, aft dozens of soldiers from some sides were killed successful aggravated clashes on the borderline betwixt the 2 neighbours.
Recently, conflicts person occurred betwixt Pakistan and Afghanistan, starring to tense relations, which we are profoundly acrophobic about, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian told a media briefing, commenting connected the struggle betwixt the 2 countries during the weekend.
“China sincerely hopes that some sides volition absorption connected the broader picture, stay calm and restrained, adhere to resolving communal concerns done dialog and consultation, debar escalating conflicts, and jointly support bid and stableness successful some countries and the region,” helium said.
The Pakistan Army said connected Sunday that astatine slightest 23 of its soldiers and implicit 200 Taliban and affiliated terrorists were killed successful aggravated overnight clashes on the Pakistan-Afghanistan borderline arsenic tensions escalated betwixt the 2 neighbours.
Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban government's main spokesman, said that 58 Pakistani soldiers were killed and astir 30 others wounded successful the attacks.
China maintains adjacent ties with Pakistan and Afghanistan done a tripartite mechanism, conducting periodic meetings to robust retired differences implicit Islamabad’s repeated allegations against Kabul of hosting Pakistan’s militant groups, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and Baloch Liberation Army.
Significantly, Mujahid said the cognition was halted astatine midnight pursuing requests from Qatar and Saudi Arabia, portion China’s absorption came good aft the 2 sides ended the firing.
In his absorption to the Pakistan-Afghanistan conflict, Lin has not commented connected the Taliban interim government’s overseas curate Amir Khan Muttaqi’s sojourn to India.
Analysts accidental that Muttaqi's sojourn to India and Taliban's determination to standard up its ties with New Delhi besides creates a consciousness of unease successful Beijing arsenic since Taliban took power of Afghanistan successful August 2021 aft the US troops vacated the country, China, which besides shares borderline with it, has established adjacent ties with Taliban, highlighting its ain interest implicit Islamic militant groups particularly the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, warring for the separation the Uygur Muslim bulk state of Xinjiang.
The dependable deterioration of Taliban-Pakistan relations implicit the beingness of TTP and BLA militants has made Beijing’s relation hard contempt offers to the Taliban authorities to nexus up the $60 cardinal China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) arsenic the hostilities escalated into a full-scale borderline conflict.
Instead, the Taliban authorities reportedly projected a nonstop corridor betwixt China and Afghanistan done the Wakhan Corridor connecting some countries, according to Afghan media reports
