Pakistans Defence Minister Khawaja Asif warns Afghanistan of stern response to any new militant assault

Pakistan’s Defence Minister warned Afghanistan on Wednesday (October 29, 2025) that any new “terrorist or suicide assault” by militants on Pakistani soil would draw a stern response, hours after talks between them in Istanbul did not safe a peace settlement.

Earlier this month, Pakistan’s army launched assaults on what it mentioned had been hideouts of the Pakistani Taliban in Afghanistan, killing dozens of individuals whom it described as insurgents. Afghanistan mentioned the individuals killed had been civilians and struck Pakistani army posts in response, claiming 58 Pakistani troopers had been killed. Pakistan’s army mentioned it misplaced 23 troopers within the border combating.

The two sides agreed to a ceasefire brokered by international locations together with Qatar on October 19 in Doha, adopted by 4 days of talks in Istanbul that ended inconclusively.

In a publish on X, Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif advised Afghanistan’s Taliban Government that “any terrorist assault or suicide bombing inside Pakistan shall provide the bitter style of such misadventures.”

There was no speedy remark from Kabul on the collapse of peace talks or on Mr. Asif’s remarks, however Afghanistan’s state broadcaster RTA reported that the negotiations stalled due to what it known as “irrational calls for” from Pakistan.

According to RTA, Islamabad sought assurances that no assaults could be launched from Afghan territory, whereas the Taliban delegation mentioned the Pakistani Taliban, often known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, was an inner concern for Islamabad.

Pakistan has longed accused Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities of turning a blind eye to Pakistani Taliban and different militants working from Afghanistan. Kabul denies the cost.

Pakistan has witnessed a surge in militant assaults, most claimed by the Pakistani Taliban, which is a separate group from the Afghan Taliban however and has been emboldened because the latter returned to energy in Kabul in 2021. Many Pakistani Taliban leaders and fighters have been dwelling in Afghanistan since then.

Mr. Asif in a strongly-worded tweet additionally accused Kabul of “blindly pushing Afghanistan into one more battle” to protect what he described as its “usurped rule and conflict economic system.”

“Let me guarantee them that Pakistan doesn’t require to make use of even a fraction of its full arsenal to utterly obliterate the Taliban regime and push them again to the caves for hiding,” he mentioned.

Despite the failure of the talks, a ceasefire remained in place, and no new clashes had been reported alongside the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Both international locations have shut all main crossings, leaving a whole bunch of vehicles carrying items and refugees stranded on either side.

At the Chaman border crossing in southwestern Balochistan province in Pakistan, a whole bunch of Afghan refugee households and merchants voiced frustration and anxiousness over the failed talks.

“We got here to know that the talks failed,” mentioned Ajab Khan, an Afghan refugee ready in a protracted queue of vehicles loaded with family items. “Now we’re going again to Afghanistan, however it’s a scary scenario. We don’t understand how we’ll survive there.”