Pakistan, Afghanistan agree to resume peace talks after deadlock

Tooba Khan and Sherif Tarek, Bloomberg News on Oct 30, 2025

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Pakistan and Afghanistan agreed to resume peace talks and maintain a ceasefire after mediation efforts by Turkey and Qatar, bolstering hopes the agreement reached between the neighboring countries two weeks ago will hold up.

Additional implementation mechanisms will be discussed and decided at a principal-level meeting in Istanbul on Nov. 6, the Qatari Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Pakistani security officials, who didn’t want to be identified, said Pakistan will focus on demands that Afghanistan take clear and verifiable action against militants responsible for cross-border attacks. The claim was denied by Afghanistan’s Taliban regime.

Representatives from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Qatar and Turkey held meetings in Istanbul from Oct. 25 to Oct. 30 to consolidate the ceasefire, the Qatari Foreign Ministry said. They agreed to establish a monitoring and verification mechanism to ensure preservation of peace and to impose penalties on any violating party.

Pakistan’s Information Minister Attaullah Tarar didn’t immediately comment on the resumption of talks. Four days of negotiations with the Afghan Taliban failed to bring a “workable solution,” Tarar said on Wednesday.

The Asian nations are trying to extend a ceasefire reached between them after days of cross-border attacks that killed many soldiers on both sides.

The deadlock in talks raised concerns of resumption of hostilities as Pakistan carried out air strikes to target the militants of Afghan Taliban’s Pakistani offshoot in Kabul and other border areas, local media reported earlier, citing Defense Minister Khawaja Asif. Afghanistan said it retaliated to those attacks.