KABUL, Nov 8 — Afghanistan’s Taliban government said today the latest round of peace talks with Pakistan in Turkiye had failed, blaming Islamabad’s “irresponsible and uncooperative” approach.

“During the discussions, the Pakistani side attempted to shift all responsibility for its security to the Afghan government, while showing no willingness to take responsibility for either Afghanistan’s security or its own,” Taliban government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid wrote on social media.

“The irresponsible and uncooperative attitude of the Pakistani delegation has not yielded any results,” he said.

Islamabad did not immediately comment.

Pakistan’s Information Minister Attaullah Tarar hinted a day earlier that the negotiations were falling through, saying that the onus lay on Afghanistan to fulfil pledges to clamp down on terrorism, “which so far they have failed”.

An Afghan man inspects a damaged house, following cross-border fire from Pakistan's artillery shelling, at a village in the Spin Boldak district of Kandahar on November 7, 2025. Afghan and Pakistani negotiators were locked in crunch peace talks on November 7 in Istanbul after deadly border fighting threatened a fragile truce. — AFP pic
An Afghan man inspects a damaged house, following cross-border fire from Pakistan's artillery shelling, at a village in the Spin Boldak district of Kandahar on November 7, 2025. Afghan and Pakistani negotiators were locked in crunch peace talks on November 7 in Istanbul after deadly border fighting threatened a fragile truce. — AFP pic

“Pakistan shall continue to exercise all options necessary to safeguard the security of its people and its sovereignty,” he wrote.

The two countries met in Istanbul on Thursday to try to finalise a truce agreed on October 19 in Qatar, in the wake of the deadliest clashes between the South Asian neighbours since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021. — AFP