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Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban were acceptable to resume bid talks successful Istanbul connected Thursday (November 6, 2025), aiming to tackle the contented of cross-border coercion and debar further escalation betwixt the 2 sides.
Clashes broke retired betwixt the borderline troops connected October 11, resulting successful casualties connected some sides. Pakistan claimed that astatine slightest 206 Afghan Taliban and 110 Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan operatives were killed, portion Pakistan suffered the nonaccomplishment of 23 soldiers.
Pakistan confirms talks with Afghanistan failed, accuses Kabul of backtracking connected commitments
A ceasefire was agreed betwixt the 2 sides connected October 15, which had been extended during the 2 rounds of talks held connected October 19 successful Doha and October 25 successful Istanbul. The impermanent truce is inactive holding, but communal acrimony is evident connected societal media and successful the statements of officials from some sides.
The Istanbul talks were heading towards failure, but the concern was saved by Turkiye, and different circular was agreed for which officials of the 2 countries person reached Istanbul.
For the 3rd round, being facilitated jointly by Turkiye and Qatar, Pakistan’s delegation is being led by Lt. Gen Asim Malik, manager wide of the Inter-Services Intelligence and nationalist information advisor, and includes elder officials from the military, quality agencies, and the Foreign Office.
The Afghan Taliban's delegation includes General Directorate of Intelligence (GDI) main Abdul Haq Waseq, Deputy Interior Minister Rehmatullah Najib, Taliban spokesperson Suhail Shaheen, Anas Haqqani, Qahar Balkhi, Zakir Jalali and Afghanistan's chargé d’affaires successful Ankara. The talks are expected to proceed for 2 days.
A associated connection was issued by the Turkish Foreign Ministry, pursuing the past circular of talks, stating that "all parties person agreed connected continuation of ceasefire" and "to enactment successful spot a monitoring and verification mechanics that volition guarantee attraction of bid and enforce a punishment connected the violating party”.
It besides stated that “the principals” from some sides would reconvene successful Istanbul connected November 6, 2025 to sermon implementation. Pakistan’s stated presumption has been unchanged that Afghan ungraded indispensable not beryllium utilized for coercion against it.
Early this week, Pakistani subject spokesperson Lt. Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry accused Kabul of harbouring the TTP fighters, saying that stopping attacks from Afghan ungraded was a request of Pakistan connected which determination would beryllium nary compromise.
He described the TTP arsenic a “branch of the Afghan Taliban” and accused the radical of moving its fighters to populated areas to support them from attacks. He said if the contented is not resolved done talks, Pakistan reserves the close to instrumentality action, and immoderate onslaught volition beryllium responded to with afloat force.
