ISLAMABAD: Defense Minister Khawaja Asif has said that Afghanistan has made it clear that there are no more diplomatic relations between Islamabad and Kabul following the unprovoked aggressions by Afghanistan.
Khawaja Asif in his talk with Shahzeb Khanzada on Geo News said, “Right now it is a deadlock. You may say that there are no active combat going on but the situation is still very precarious.”
He also remarked that there are no “direct or indirect relations with Afghanistan” at the moment.
The Defense Minister even hinted at the possibility of the situation deteriorating to the point of the actual fighting breaking out again, though he did mention the pause in the hostilities, “We cannot dismiss the shooting moving to our part or vice versa any time, although at the moment we have a short truce,” he said.
It should be mentioned that on October 12, ISPR, the army of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Public Relations, confirmed that the Pakistani armed forces had skillfully reacted to unprovoked aggressions by the Afghan Taliban propagating and attacking. The retaliation claimed more than 200 lives of Afghan Taliban militants and their foreign allies in total. In the course of war, 23 dead Pakistani soldiers were reported, and 29 others were wounded.
ISPR also reported that forces of the Afghan Taliban and their allies in India, called Fitnatul Khawarij were the ones who launched the unprovoked attack on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border on the night of October 11-12, 2025. Further, the statement disclosed that 23 soldiers defended Pakistan’s border integrity at the cost of their lives while 29 suffered injuries.
According to ISPR, based on intelligence reports and damage assessments, more than 200 Taliban and their allied terrorists were killed in the retaliatory actions, with the number of wounded far higher.
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The ISPR further confirmed that every precaution was taken to safeguard people and also to reduce damage to a minimum during the operation. The retaliation by the Pakistani army also led to the seizure of 21 positions in Afghanistan.
