Operation Ghazab Lil Haq (Pakistan - Afghanistan War)

TTP and Taliban Afghanistan are same thing. Afghan Taliban will not take action against TTP or BLA.
Pakistan will have to take action, and if Afghan Taliban tries to come in between, then their Kabul regime will collapse, as Afghan Taliban will not be able to control whole of Afghanistan.
 
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Why the Istanbul Talks Collapsed

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The breakdown of the Türkiye negotiations had nothing to do with Pakistan’s diplomacy. The real reason was internal fractures and backstage power-play inside the Afghan regime.

📮From the very first session it became clear that the Afghan delegation was not negotiating with one voice. Three competing blocs - Kandahar, Kabul and Khost - were all feeding separate instructions to the delegates.

🔸 The Turning Point

📮When the talks reached the stage of written guarantees on TTP safe havens, the Kandahar faction had signalled quiet willingness to proceed - but then, during a break, the Kabul group staged a manufactured complication:

They suddenly insisted that

_“no agreement can be signed unless the United States joins as a formal guarantor.”_

📮This was not part of the agenda, nor had it been raised in previous rounds. Afghan Social Media accounts reporting about US drones is testimony to this fact.

📮The move caught the mediators by surprise because this wasn’t about security - it was about reopening a financial corridor through Washington.

📮They tried to turn a bilateral-security negotiation into a three-party donor-linked arrangement - essentially transforming the security file into a bargaining chip for aid.

🔸 Internal Drama Behind Closed Doors

📮Witnesses say there was visible confusion on the Afghan benches. One delegate was taking instructions on a handwritten chit from a handler sitting outside the official delegation. Another repeatedly left the room to speak on phone to Kabul.

📮After those phone calls:
•Every agreed clause was suddenly “reopened”
•Already-cleared points were put “under review”
•And timing was dragged intentionally.

📮It became obvious that the aim was to stall progress until outside actors (including India) could be looped in - not to reach a settlement.

🔸 Why They Want the US Involved

📮This push for an American “guarantor” has nothing to do with sovereignty.
It is a financial reinsertion tactic:

✔ If the US is added, the Taliban can claim “cooperation”
✔ If cooperation begins, talks for “economic assistance” reopen
✔ Once money flows, pressure on internal factions reduces

📮So instead of countering TTP, they are trying to monetize TTP’s existence to revive a flow of dollars.

🔸 Mediators’ Private Assessment

📮Both Qatari and Turkish facilitators privately acknowledged three points:
1.Pakistan’s demands are legitimate & fully aligned with international norms
2.The Afghan side is not blocked by substance, but by internal insecurity
3.The Kabul faction specifically wants the file dragged toward Washington for financial leverage

❗️ Bottom Line ❗

The talks did not fail because of diplomacy. They failed because:

🔻 The Afghan regime is internally divided
🔻 Key factions want to pull the US back in to restart the dollar pipeline
🔻 They are unwilling to act against TTP because TTP is their last bargaining chip and Insurance of Indian Money

📮Until Kabul resolves its internal power struggle and stops trying to convert terrorism into political currency, no progress is possible.
 

Pakistan, Afghanistan peace negotiations deadlocked​


Afghan delegation believes that accepting Pakistan's demands would be right course of action

Kamran Yousaf
October 28, 2025


tribune


ISLAMABAD: The ongoing talks between Pakistan and Afghanistan in Istanbul have failed to yield any breakthrough on Islamabad's key demand for a clear plan of action to dismantle terrorist infrastructure operating from Afghan soil.

Officials familiar with the development said both sides held another round of discussions on Monday in the presence of Turkish officials mediating to bridge differences. However, till the filing of this report, the dialogue remained deadlocked, as the Taliban delegation refused to provide written guarantees.

"The third day of the ongoing talks in Istanbul is also facing difficulties," a security source said. "The logical and reasoned demands that Pakistan has presented are legitimate, but the Afghan Taliban delegation are not ready to fully accept them." the source added.

Pakistan has refused to soften its stance, maintaining that any cooperation with the Taliban regime hinges on Kabul taking concrete steps against the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Baloch militant groups, and other organisations using Afghan territory to launch attacks.

"The message from Islamabad was clear - no compromise on terrorism," said another source. "Pakistan has presented specific proposals seeking verifiable measures to dismantle the TTP network and prevent cross-border attacks."

While Afghan delegates were said to be receptive to some of Pakistan's proposals, officials added that the delegation lacked formal authorisation from Kabul and Kandahar, limiting the scope of the dialogue.
 
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Even Hazret-i Nuh (PBUH) hadn't made more efforts to correct his evil folks before the Greatest Flood washed them away....
 

Asif warns Afghanistan of ‘deep strikes’ if Pakistan attacked from its soil


Dawn.com | Irfan Sadozai
October 29, 2025

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Defence Minister Khawaja Asif speaks to reporters at Parliament House, Islamabad on Oct 29, 2025. — screengrab from video via Irfan Sadozai


Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Wednesday warned Kabul that Pakistan will strike “deep into Afghanistan” if its territory is used to carry out terror attacks in the country.

In a pre-dawn announcement, Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said the latest round of talks between the two countries in Turkiye, which aimed to address cross-border terrorism emanating from Afghan soil, “failed to bring about any workable solution”.

“We will conduct strikes, we definitely will,” Asif told reporters at Parliament House, when asked about the options available for Pakistan in case of cross-border attacks from Afghanistan.

“If their territory is used and they violate our territory, then, if we need to go deep into Afghanistan to retaliate, we surely will,” he added.

Asif’s latest remarks come hours after he issued a strongly worded warning to the Taliban rulers in Kabul, telling them to test Islamabad’s resolve at their “own peril and doom” if they wished to do so.

“We have borne your treachery and mockery for too long, but no more. Any terrorist attack or any suicide bombing inside Pakistan shall give you the bitter taste of such misadventures. Be rest assured and test our resolve and capabilities, if you wish so, at your own peril and doom,” Asif posted on social media platform X.

The defence minister said that Pakistan had indulged in talks to give peace a chance on the request of brotherly countries, who were persistently being beseeched by the rulers in Kabul, however, “venomous statements by certain Afghan officials clearly reflect the devious and splintered mindset of Taliban regime”.

“Let me assure them that Pakistan does not require to employ even a fraction of its full arsenal to completely obliterate the Taliban regime and push them back to the caves for hiding.

If they wish so, the repeat of the scenes of their rout at Tora Bora, with their tails between the legs, would surely be a spectacle to watch for the people of the region.”

Asif further accused the Taliban rulers in Kabul of “blindly pushing Afghanistan into yet another conflict, just to retain its usurped rule and maintain the war economy that sustains them”.

“Despite fully knowing their inherent limitations and hollowness of their war cries, they are beating the war drums to maintain their crumbling facade. If the Afghan Taliban regime is madly hell-bent upon ruining Afghanistan and its innocent people once again, then so be it,” he said.

In his post, Asif also referred to the phrase “graveyard of empires” used for Afghanistan in connection with the historical instances of several nations failing to conquer the country.

“As far as the narrative of ‘graveyard of empires’, Pakistan certainly doesn’t claim it to be an empire but Afghanistan is definitely a graveyard, surely for its own people. Never a graveyard of empires but certainly a playground of empires you have been throughout history,” Asif commented.

He said the “war mongers amongst the Taliban regime, who have vested interests in the continuation of instability in the region, should know that they have probably misread our resolve and courage”.

“If the Taliban regime wants to fight us, the world will Insha Allah (God willing) see that their threats are only performative circus!”
 

UN expresses concern over talk failure​

In a separate development, the United Nations voiced concern over the collapse of talks between Pakistan and Afghanistan, hoping that the “fighting will not renew”.

UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric was asked about the collapse of the negotiations and whether it was a concern for the UN.

“Yes, it is, of course. We very much hope that even if the talks are on pause, the fighting will not renew,” he told reporters at the regular noon briefing at UN Headquarters in New York, APP reported.
 

From border skirmishes to talk failure​

Pakistan and Afghanistan saw a worsening of ties in recent days, which featured border skirmishes, counter statements and and allegations.

The hostilities began earlier this month when an attack was launched on Pakistan from Afghanistan on the night of October 11. The attack had followed an allegation from the Taliban of airstrikes by Pakistan into Afghanistan — an accusation which Islamabad has neither confirmed nor denied.

For its part, Islamabad has long demanded that Taliban stop terror groups from using its soil against Pakistan. Taliban, however, deny the allegation of allowing terrorists to operate from the Afghan soil.

Meanwhile, Pakistan continues grapple with the issue of terrorism and has suffered multiple casualties among security forces in intelligence-based operations.

After the initial skirmish on Oct 11, multiple others took place along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Meanwhile, strikes by Islamabad also targeted Gul Bahadur group camps in Afghanistan.

Eventually, the two sides came together for dialogue in Doha, which resulted in a temporary ceasefire, as well as a commitment to reconvene in Istanbul to work on mechanisms for lasting peace and stability between the two countries.

Last week, the second round of talks, which were being mediated by Turkiye and Qatar, between the two sides began in the Turkish capital.

But earlier today, Tarar announced in a post on X that the latest round of talks between Islamabad and Kabul in Istanbul “failed to bring about any workable solution”. He also asserted that Pakistan would continue to take all possible measures to protect its citizens from terrorism.

The information minister said that Pakistan had repeatedly engaged with the Afghan Taliban regarding “persistent cross-border terrorism” by India-abetted“ terrorists.

“The Afghan Taliban regime have been asked time and again to fulfil their written commitments to Pakistan and to the international community in the Doha Agreement. However, Pakistan’s fervent efforts proved futile due to the Afghan Taliban regime’s unabated support to anti-Pakistan terrorists,” Tarar said.

The statement from the information minister came hours after Asif said that an agreement was about to be reached with Kabul, but Afghan negotiators backpedalled after contacting Kabul during the negotiations.

Earlier, when the second round of talks had begun between the two sides on Oct 25, Asif had warned that failure to reach an agreement would mean “open war”.
 

Asif warns Afghanistan of ‘deep strikes’ if Pakistan attacked from its soil


Dawn.com | Irfan Sadozai
October 29, 2025

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Defence Minister Khawaja Asif speaks to reporters at Parliament House, Islamabad on Oct 29, 2025. — screengrab from video via Irfan Sadozai


Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Wednesday warned Kabul that Pakistan will strike “deep into Afghanistan” if its territory is used to carry out terror attacks in the country.

In a pre-dawn announcement, Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said the latest round of talks between the two countries in Turkiye, which aimed to address cross-border terrorism emanating from Afghan soil, “failed to bring about any workable solution”.

“We will conduct strikes, we definitely will,” Asif told reporters at Parliament House, when asked about the options available for Pakistan in case of cross-border attacks from Afghanistan.

“If their territory is used and they violate our territory, then, if we need to go deep into Afghanistan to retaliate, we surely will,” he added.

Asif’s latest remarks come hours after he issued a strongly worded warning to the Taliban rulers in Kabul, telling them to test Islamabad’s resolve at their “own peril and doom” if they wished to do so.

“We have borne your treachery and mockery for too long, but no more. Any terrorist attack or any suicide bombing inside Pakistan shall give you the bitter taste of such misadventures. Be rest assured and test our resolve and capabilities, if you wish so, at your own peril and doom,” Asif posted on social media platform X.

The defence minister said that Pakistan had indulged in talks to give peace a chance on the request of brotherly countries, who were persistently being beseeched by the rulers in Kabul, however, “venomous statements by certain Afghan officials clearly reflect the devious and splintered mindset of Taliban regime”.

“Let me assure them that Pakistan does not require to employ even a fraction of its full arsenal to completely obliterate the Taliban regime and push them back to the caves for hiding.

If they wish so, the repeat of the scenes of their rout at Tora Bora, with their tails between the legs, would surely be a spectacle to watch for the people of the region.”

Asif further accused the Taliban rulers in Kabul of “blindly pushing Afghanistan into yet another conflict, just to retain its usurped rule and maintain the war economy that sustains them”.

“Despite fully knowing their inherent limitations and hollowness of their war cries, they are beating the war drums to maintain their crumbling facade. If the Afghan Taliban regime is madly hell-bent upon ruining Afghanistan and its innocent people once again, then so be it,” he said.

In his post, Asif also referred to the phrase “graveyard of empires” used for Afghanistan in connection with the historical instances of several nations failing to conquer the country.

“As far as the narrative of ‘graveyard of empires’, Pakistan certainly doesn’t claim it to be an empire but Afghanistan is definitely a graveyard, surely for its own people. Never a graveyard of empires but certainly a playground of empires you have been throughout history,” Asif commented.

He said the “war mongers amongst the Taliban regime, who have vested interests in the continuation of instability in the region, should know that they have probably misread our resolve and courage”.

“If the Taliban regime wants to fight us, the world will Insha Allah (God willing) see that their threats are only performative circus!”
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