Pakistan threatens to ‘obliterate’ Taliban after failed peace negotiations

Pakistan’s protection minister threatened on Wednesday to “obliterate” the Taliban, who management neighboring Afghanistan, after negotiations for lasting peace between the 2 sides collapsed.

Peace talks in Istanbul, Turkey, have concluded with no “workable answer”, Pakistan’s Data Minister Attaullah Tarar stated after lethal clashes this month. Dozens of individuals have been killed alongside the Pakistan-Afghanistan border within the worst violence within the space for the reason that Taliban took management of Kabul in 2021.

The negotiations ended with a disagreement over terror teams utilizing Afghanistan as a base to assault safety forces alongside the Pakistani border.

“Pakistan doesn’t have to deploy even a fraction of its complete arsenal to fully eradicate the Taliban regime and push them again to the caves to cover,” Pakistani Protection Minister Khawaja Asif stated on X.

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An Afghan Taliban fighter sits on a tank close to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in Spin Boldak, Kandahar province, after firefights between Pakistani and Afghan forces in Afghanistan on October 15, 2025. (Reuters)

The 2 international locations agreed to a ceasefire in Doha, Qatar, on October 19, however have been unable to search out frequent floor in a second spherical of talks mediated by Turkey and Qatar in Istanbul, in accordance with Reuters.

Each international locations blamed one another for the failure of the talks.

“The Afghan facet continued to deviate from the core challenge… on which the dialogue course of was initiated,” Pakistan’s data minister stated on Wednesday, accusing the Taliban of distraction, trickery and taking part in a “blame recreation”.

“The dialogue has subsequently not produced any workable answer,” he stated.

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Taliban safety personnel stroll previous a broken automotive within the Spin Boldak district of Kandahar province on October 16, 2025, a day after cross-border clashes between Afghanistan and Pakistan. (Getty Photographs)

A Pakistani safety supply advised Reuters that the Taliban have been unwilling to conform to rein within the Pakistani Taliban, a separate terror group that Pakistan says operates from Afghanistan with out consequence.

An Afghan supply conversant in the talks advised the channel that the negotiations ended after “tense exchanges” on the problem, noting that Afghanistan claimed it had no management over the Pakistani Taliban.

The Pakistani Taliban have carried out assaults on the Pakistani military in latest weeks.

The clashes started earlier this month after Pakistani airstrikes focused the top of the Pakistani Taliban in Kabul and different places.

A Taliban safety personnel stands guard alongside a street close to the Ghulam Khan Zero Level Border Crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan in Gurbuz district in southeastern Khost province on October 20, 2025. (Getty Photographs)

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The Taliban retaliated with assaults on Pakistani army posts alongside the 1,600-mile border that continues to be closed.

Pakistan’s protection minister stated on Saturday he believed Afghanistan was searching for peace however that failure to achieve an settlement in Istanbul would imply “open struggle”.

And regardless of a ceasefire between Pakistan and the Taliban, clashes this weekend resulted within the killing of 5 Pakistani troopers and 25 Pakistani Taliban members close to the border with Afghanistan.

Reuters contributed to this report.