Trump says he’ll resolve Pakistan-Afghanistan battle in a short time

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday (October 26, 2025) mentioned he would get the battle between Pakistan and Afghanistan “solved in a short time”, calling Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Army chief Asim Munir “nice individuals”.

Addressing an occasion on the sidelines of an  Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Malaysia, he talked concerning the newest rigidity between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

“I do know them each … the Pakistan Field Marshal and the Prime Minister are nice individuals, and I do know we’re gonna get that executed rapidly. That one began up just a few days in the past,” he mentioned.

When the preventing broke out between Pakistan and Afghanistan, the U.S. President was fast to specific curiosity in helping with establishing peace, though he was on the time occupied with overseeing a hostage trade between Hamas and Israel.

“I mentioned, ‘I’ll have to attend until I get again. I’m doing one other one,’” he instructed reporters on the time. “Because I’m good at fixing wars, I’m good at making peace,” the U.S. President added.  

Meanwhile, Pakistan and Afghanistan held the second spherical of talks in Istanbul to ascertain a joint monitoring and oversight mechanism to curb terrorist actions throughout the border, at the same time as Islamabad warned that battle was nonetheless an possibility if talks failed to deal with its chief concern about terrorism.

Dozens of troopers, civilians and terrorists had been killed in clashes earlier this month, making a war-like state of affairs; nonetheless, peace was restored quickly on October 19 after the 2 sides held talks — facilitated by Qatar and Turkey — in Doha.

Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Saturday (October 25) warned of an “all-out battle” with the Afghan Taliban if the talks failed, including that the result of the negotiations could be recognized by tomorrow, if not right now.