Wednesday 29/October/2025 – 04:54 AM
Pakistani Information Minister Atallah Tarar announced on Wednesday that talks aimed at a long-term truce between Afghanistan and Pakistan were concluded in Istanbul without reaching a practical solution, in a blow to peace in the region after bloody clashes earlier in October.
Peace between Pakistan and Afghanistan
Pakistani Information Minister Atallah Tarar said in a statement issued early Wednesday: The Afghan side continued to deviate from the basic issue, evading the main point on which the dialogue process began, adding: Instead of accepting any responsibility, the Afghan Taliban movement resorted to the game of blame, evasion and tricks. Consequently, the dialogue failed to reach any practical solution.
Informed Afghan and Pakistani sources told Reuters earlier, Tuesday, that the two countries agreed to the ceasefire that was reached in Doha on October 19, but they were unable to reach common ground in a second round of talks mediated by Turkey and Qatar in Istanbul, and each blamed the other for the failure.
A Pakistani security source said the Taliban did not want to commit to reining in the Pakistani Taliban, a separate anti-Pakistan armed group that Islamabad says operates with impunity inside Afghanistan.
The talks were aimed at reaching a lasting peace between the two neighbors after dozens were killed along their border in the worst such violence since the Taliban seized power in Kabul in 2021.
