Pakistan threatens to 'obliterate' Taliban after failed peace negotiations

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Pakistan's protection minister on Wednesday threatened to "obliterate" the Taliban, which controls neighboring Afghanistan, after negotiations towards lasting peace between the 2 sides failed.

Peace talks wrapped up in Istanbul, Turkey, with no "workable resolution," in response to Pakistan Info Minister Attaullah Tarar, which comes after lethal clashes this month. Dozens have been killed alongside the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan within the worst violence within the space because the Taliban took management of Kabul in 2021.

Negotiations ended with a disagreement over terror teams allegedly utilizing Afghanistan as a base to assault safety forces alongside Pakistan's border.

"Pakistan doesn't require to make use of even a fraction of its full arsenal to fully obliterate the Taliban regime and push them again to the caves for hiding," Pakistan Protection Minister Khawaja Asif stated on X.

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The 2 nations agreed to a ceasefire brokered in Doha, Qatar , on October 19, however they may not discover frequent floor in a second spherical of talks mediated by Turkey and Qatar in Istanbul, in response to Reuters.

Each nations blamed the opposite for the talks falling aside.

"The Afghan aspect saved deviating from the core difficulty ... on which the dialogue course of was initiated," Pakistan's data minister stated on Wednesday, accusing the Taliban of participating in deflection, ruses and enjoying a "blame sport."

"The dialogue thus didn't result in any workable resolution," he stated.

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A Pakistani safety supply advised Reuters that the Taliban had been unwilling to comply with reining within the Pakistani Taliban, a separate terror group that Pakistan says operates with out penalties from inside Afghanistan.

An Afghan supply acquainted with the talks advised the outlet that negotiations ended after "tense exchanges" on the matter, noting that Afghanistan claimed it had no management over the Pakistani Taliban.

The Pakistani Taliban launched assaults in opposition to the Pakistani navy in latest weeks.

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

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

Pakistan's protection minister stated on Saturday that he believed Afghanistan sought peace however that the failure to succeed in an settlement in Istanbul would imply "open conflict."

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