"Will conduct strikes": Pak Defence Min warns Taliban "to push them back to caves"

Islamabad [Pakistan], October 29 (ANI): Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif warned the Taliban authorities connected Wednesday issued a terrible menace to the Afghan Taliban, informing that Pakistan could onslaught 'deep into Afghanistan' and 'push them backmost to the caves' if different militant onslaught occurs connected Pakistani soil, Dawn reported.

The assertive connection followed the illness of bid talks successful Turkey and a surge successful borderline clashes. Four days of negotiations successful Istanbul betwixt Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban concluded without a resolution. The talks were mediated by Turkey and Qatar pursuing deadly borderline clashes and a impermanent ceasefire that began connected October 19.

In a pre-dawn announcement, Pakistan's Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said the latest circular of talks betwixt the 2 countries successful Turkiye, which aimed to code cross-border coercion emanating from Afghan soil, 'failed to bring astir immoderate workable solution'.

'We volition behaviour strikes, we decidedly will,' Asif told reporters astatine Parliament House, erstwhile asked astir the options disposable for Pakistan successful lawsuit of cross-border struggle with Afghanistan, arsenic per Dawn.

'If their territory is utilized and they interruption our territory, then, if we request to spell heavy into Afghanistan to retaliate, we surely will,' helium added.

The defence curate said that Pakistan had indulged successful talks to springiness bid a accidental connected the petition of brotherly countries, who the rulers successful Kabul were persistently beseeching; however, 'venomous statements by definite Afghan officials intelligibly bespeak the devious and splintered mindset of the Taliban regime'.

'Let maine guarantee them that Pakistan does not necessitate employing adjacent a fraction of its afloat arsenal to wholly obliterate the Taliban authorities and propulsion them backmost to the caves for hiding. If they privation so, the repetition of the scenes of their rout astatine Tora Bora, with their tails betwixt the legs, would surely beryllium a spectacle to ticker for the radical of the region.'

The defence curate said Afghanistan neither 'fulfils the explanation of a state' nor was the interim medication truthful considered. 'They are benefiting financially by being the rulers.'

Asked whether the Afghan Taliban were taking their state towards a akin concern arsenic the United States' subject cognition successful Tora Bora successful December 2001, Asif said, 'It is decidedly a possibility.'

Asif's latest remarks travel hours aft helium issued a powerfully worded informing to the Taliban rulers successful Kabul, telling them to trial Islamabad's resoluteness astatine their 'own peril and doom' if they wished to bash so.

'We person borne your treachery and mockery for excessively long, but nary more. Any violent onslaught oregon immoderate termination bombing wrong Pakistan shall springiness you the bitter sensation of specified misadventures. Be assured and trial our resoluteness and capabilities, if you privation so, astatine your ain peril and doom,' Asif posted connected societal media level X, arsenic per Dawn.

In a abstracted development, the United Nations voiced interest implicit the illness of talks betwixt Pakistan and Afghanistan, hoping that the 'fighting volition not renew'.

UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric was asked astir the illness of the negotiations and whether it was a interest for the UN.

Pakistan and Afghanistan saw a worsening of ties successful caller days, which featured borderline skirmishes, counter-statements, and allegations, arsenic per Dawn.

The hostilities began earlier this period erstwhile an onslaught was launched connected Pakistan from Afghanistan connected the nighttime of October 11. The onslaught had followed an allegation from the Taliban of airstrikes by Pakistan into Afghanistan -- an accusation which Islamabad has neither confirmed nor denied. (ANI)