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Pakistan cancelled a imaginable subject enactment against Afghanistan astatine Qatar's petition past month, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar said connected Saturday (November 29, 2025).
Mr. Dar was addressing a property league wherever helium talked astatine magnitude astir Pakistan’s concerns and expectations from Kabul.
“The Qatari Foreign Ministry came to cognize that we were moving towards taking enactment (against Afghanistan). Then Qatar requested for a solution to the occupation and mediation, aft which the cognition that was going to beryllium carried retired that nighttime was stopped,” Mr. Dar said, referring to tensions with Kabul past month.
He said that thing could travel retired of a mediation, and Qatar was not blessed that its mediation effort remained fruitless.
"It is not due to speech astir a affable country, but they (Qatar) are present upset that they got mediation done and nary effect could beryllium achieved,” Mr. Dar said.
He besides urged the Afghan Taliban to reconsider their argumentation arsenic they were present moving the country.
“The Afghan Taliban volition person to reconsider their argumentation since they are successful power. We don’t privation thing from them; we are acceptable to bash anything, but since their authorities came to power, our 4,000 officers and soldiers person been killed, and implicit 20,000 injured. So however tin I accidental that 'let america adjacent our eyes (towards Afghanistan)'?”
He besides warned that Pakistan has the powerfulness and capableness to hole the issues of militancy emanating from Afghanistan.
“Because these (violent incidents) are not decreasing, but are increasing. It is their delusion that we cannot lick it. Allah has fixed Pakistan the spot to enactment connected it and marque things right, but it is besides not close that we spell to our brother's location and participate and termination him,” helium said.
Mr. Dar besides shared details of his visits to Russia, Bahrain and different countries and stressed that bid successful Afghanistan is indispensable for bid successful the region. “We told Afghanistan not to let coercion from its soil, the European Union supported Pakistan’s presumption connected Afghanistan,” helium said.
He claimed that Pakistan was sending backmost Afghan refugees with dignity and wished for improvement for the radical of Afghanistan.
Relations betwixt Pakistan and Afghanistan person deteriorated amidst regular allegations by Pakistan regarding the nonaccomplishment of the Afghan authorities to contradict harmless havens to Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan terrorists.
The 2 countries had agreed connected a ceasefire pursuing tensions past month, but the Foreign Office said connected Friday (November 28, 2025) that technically determination was nary truce arsenic it was contingent connected the Afghan Taliban stopping violent attacks successful Pakistan, which they had failed to do.
Speaking astir the struggle successful Gaza, Dar said that Pakistan was acceptable to supply troops for Gaza, but it would not beryllium portion of efforts to disarm Hamas.
“We are not acceptable for that. This is not our job, but of the Palestinian instrumentality enforcement agencies. Our occupation is peacekeeping, not bid enforcement,” helium said.
“We are decidedly acceptable to lend to the unit — the Prime Minister has successful rule already announced aft consultation with the tract marshal that we volition lend — but this determination cannot beryllium taken until it is decided what its [International Stabilisation Force] mandate and TOR (terms of reference) volition be.”
The constitution of the International Stabilisation Force (ISF) was portion of the U.S.-brokered Gaza bid plan, and the UN Security Council (UNSC) past week adopted a US-drafted solution endorsing President Donald Trump’s program to extremity the struggle successful Gaza, which besides authorises the ISF for the Palestinian enclave.
Pakistan has indicated plans to go portion of the ISF and a determination is apt successful the coming weeks, but it has present clarified that being portion of ISF does not mean becoming portion of efforts to disarm Hamas.
