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Pakistan’s defense minister on Wednesday warned Afghanistan of any new “terrorist or suicide attacks” by militants. Pakistani Hours after the conversation between them, Prithvi will get a strong reaction istanbul Failed to ensure a peace agreement.
Earlier this month, Pakistan’s military launched attacks on Pakistani Taliban positions in Afghanistan, killing dozens of people it described as insurgents. Afghanistan said those killed were civilians and in response it attacked Pakistani military posts, claiming that 58 Pakistani soldiers were killed.
Pakistan Army said that it has lost 23 of its soldiers in the fighting on the border.
Both sides agreed to a ceasefire with the mediation of countries including Qatar on October 19. DohaAfter this, four days of talks in Istanbul ended inconclusively.
In a post on Twitter, Pakistan Defense Minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif told Afghanistan’s Taliban government that “any terrorist attack or suicide bombing inside Pakistan will give you the bitter taste of such audacity.”
There was no immediate comment from Kabul There was no comment on Asif’s comments on the failure of peace talks, but Afghanistan’s state broadcaster RTA reported that the talks were stalled due to “irrational demands” from Pakistan.
According to RTA, islamabad sought assurances that no attacks would be launched from Afghan territory, while the Taliban delegation said the Pakistani Taliban, also known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, was an internal issue for Islamabad.
Pakistan has long accused the Taliban government of Afghanistan of turning a blind eye towards the Pakistani Taliban and other terrorists operating from Afghanistan. Kabul denied the allegation.
Pakistan has seen an increase in terrorist attacks, most claimed by the Pakistani Taliban, a splinter group from the Afghan Taliban but which has grown emboldened since returning to power in Kabul in 2021. Many Pakistani Taliban leaders and fighters have been living in Afghanistan since then.
In a strongly worded tweet, Asif also accused Kabul of “blindly pushing Afghanistan into another conflict” with what he described as “captured governance and war economy.”
“I assure them that Pakistan does not need to use even a fraction of its full arsenal to completely dismantle the Taliban regime and push them back into caves to hide,” he said.
Despite the failure of the talks, the ceasefire remained in place and no new clashes were reported along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Both countries have closed all major crossings, leaving hundreds of trucks carrying goods and refugees stranded on both sides.
At the Chaman border crossing in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province, hundreds of Afghan refugee families and traders expressed frustration and concern over the failed talks.
“We learned that the talks have failed,” said Ajab Khan, an Afghan refugee waiting in a long line of trucks loaded with household goods. “Now we are going back to Afghanistan, but it is a scary situation. We don’t know how we will survive there.”