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Pakistan authorities connected Wednesday (October 29, 2025) confirmed that talks with the Afghan Taliban to tackle cross-border coercion failed, saying Kabul backtracked connected commitments to power militancy.
The Four-day talks began connected Saturday (October 25, 2025) and were facilitated by the host, Turkiye, wherever officials from Pakistan and Afghanistan attempted to find a communal crushed but failed to scope a consensus.
Pakistan’s Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Attaullah Tarar, confirmed the bid talks ended without a breakthrough. “The dialog frankincense failed to bring astir immoderate workable solution,” Mr. Tarar said successful a station on social media.
He said Pakistan had agelong sought practice from Kabul against militants targeting the country.
Mr. Tarar said, ever since the presumption of power successful Kabul, Pakistan has repeatedly engaged with the Afghan Taliban Regime regarding persistent cross-border terrorism.
Mr. Tarar added that Islamabad had asked the Taliban authorities “time and again to fulfil their written commitments to Pakistan and to the planetary assemblage successful the Doha Agreement.” However, helium said, “Pakistan’s fervent efforts proved futile owed to the Afghan Taliban Regime’s unabated enactment to anti-Pakistan terrorists.”
“The Taliban authorities bears nary work towards the radical of Afghanistan and thrives connected a warfare economy,” helium said, adding that it “desires to resistance and mire the Afghan radical into a needless war.”
“Pakistan has ever desired, advocated and immensely sacrificed for bid and prosperity for the radical of Afghanistan,” Mr. Tarar said.
He said Pakistan has held countless rounds of talks and parleys with the Afghan Taliban Regime, but unfortunately, they person ever remained indifferent to Pakistan’s losses.
"Sadly, aft sustaining specified immense losses of men and worldly for 4 agelong years, Pakistan’s patience has tally its course,” helium added.
He said Pakistan joined the talks successful Doha and aboriginal Istanbul “to springiness bid a chance,” acting connected the petition of “brotherly countries of Qatar and Turkiye.”
Mr. Tarar said Pakistan presented “sufficient and irrefutable evidence” of violent activity, which “was acknowledged by Afghan Taliban and the hosts,” but “regrettably, the Afghan broadside gave nary assurances.”
“The Afghan broadside kept deviating from the halfway issue, evading the cardinal constituent upon which the dialog process was initiated. Instead of accepting immoderate responsibility, the Afghan Taliban resorted to a blasted game, deflection, and ruses,” Mr. Tarar said.
He thanked Qatar, Turkiye, and different affable nations “for their enactment and sincere efforts to bring astir a peaceful solution to the occupation of terrorism.”
Mr. Tarar reaffirmed that Pakistan’s information comes first. “The information of its radical is of paramount value to Pakistan,” helium said.
Separately, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif told Geo News connected Tuesday (October 28, 2025) nighttime that an statement was astir to beryllium reached with Afghanistan, but Afghan negotiators backpedalled owed to involution from Kabul during the negotiations, elaborating that Taliban negotiators went backmost connected an statement “four oregon 5 times” aft receiving instructions from Kabul.
“Whenever we got adjacent to an statement — either successful the past 4 days oregon past week — erstwhile negotiators reported to Kabul, past determination was involution and the statement was withdrawn,” helium outlined.
Mr. Asif besides blamed India for the nonaccomplishment of the talks, calling Kabul “a instrumentality for Delhi.”
After the nonaccomplishment of talks, the information sources successful Pakistan said that the information of its radical is of paramount value to Pakistan.
“We volition proceed to instrumentality each imaginable measures indispensable to support our radical from the menace of coercion and guarantee them that the Government of Pakistan volition proceed to employment each the resources which are required successful this respect to decimate the terrorists, their sanctuaries, their abetters and supporters,” they said.
