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“Officials of Pakistan and Afghanistan are acceptable to clasp the 2nd circular of talks successful Türkiye connected Saturday (October 25, 2025) to find a negotiated solution to the border tensions and curb violent activities from Afghan soil,” officials said.
The talks travel a impermanent restoration of calm on the Pakistan-Afghanistan borderline aft the first circular of discussions was held successful Doha connected October 19, 2025. The dialog was facilitated by Qatar and Turkiye, and some sides had agreed to conscionable again successful Istanbul connected October 25 to proceed discussions aimed astatine addressing communal information concerns.
Foreign Office spokesperson Tahir Andrabi successful a connection connected Friday (October 24, 2025) confirmed that the agreed talks would spell up arsenic scheduled.
Pakistan besides looks guardant to the constitution of a “concrete and verifiable monitoring mechanism” successful the adjacent gathering to beryllium hosted by Turkiye successful Istanbul "to code the menace of coercion emanating from Afghan ungraded towards Pakistan and forestall immoderate further nonaccomplishment of beingness of Pakistanis," helium said.
Mr. Andrabi emphasised that Pakistan, arsenic a liable authorities committed to determination bid and stability, does not question escalation.
However, helium urged the Afghan Taliban authorities to honour their commitments to the planetary assemblage and to instrumentality verifiable enactment against violent entities operating from Afghan territory. Mr. Andrabi reiterated Pakistan's request for enactment against the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA).
The spokesperson welcomed the result of the Doha gathering arsenic a “first step” toward ensuring determination bid and stableness and appreciated the constructive roles of Qatar and Turkiye successful facilitating the process.
According to Mr. Andrabi, the earlier talks focussed connected contiguous measures to halt cross-border coercion against Pakistan and to reconstruct bid and stableness on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
Afghan interim medication spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid besides confirmed the Istanbul talks, saying the Afghan delegation would beryllium led by Mawlawi Rahmatullah Najeeb, Deputy Minister astatine the Ministry of Interior.
"The remaining issues (with Pakistan) volition beryllium discussed successful the meeting," Mr. Mujahid said successful a societal media post.
Pakistan has witnessed a renewed question of militant attacks since the Taliban takeover of Kabul successful 2021. Islamabad has repeatedly urged the Afghan authorities to rein successful the TTP militants utilizing Afghan ungraded to motorboat attacks wrong Pakistan, but with constricted success.
The increasing mistrust has led to repeated clashes on the 2,611-km-long border, known arsenic the Durand Line, which Afghanistan does not officially recognise.
