China's efforts were disappointed. Why did the peace talks between Pakistan and Afghanistan finally fail? What impact will this have on the border situation between the two countries?
Since last week, Pakistan and Afghanistan have started several rounds of peace talks in Istanbul, Turkey, but by October 29, Pakistani News and Radio Minister Taral regretted to announce that the round “failed to reach any viable solution.”
In fact, not only was the issue that the two sides had not reached, but the negotiations may have broken down, because Talar immediately angrily accused Afghanistan of refusing to make clear guarantees to crack down on terrorist organizations such as the "Pakistan Taliban" and "Baluchistan Liberation Armed Forces", and believed that the Afghan Taliban government was constantly deviating from the core issues and adopting a negative attitude towards the negotiations.
After that, Pakistani officials began to issue intense warnings for Afghanistan.
First, Talar made it clear that the security of the people is crucial, and that Pakistan’s patience has exhausted, and that the Pakistani government will continue to use all necessary resources to completely destroy terrorists, their bases, their instigators and supporters.
Secondly, Pakistan Defense Minister Asif also posted on social media that any organization that launches terrorist attacks in Pakistan will pay the price for such risky behavior. And Pakistan does not even need to use a small part of its entire arsenal to completely destroy the Afghan Taliban government and "drive them back into the cave."
The Afghan Taliban government rarely remained silent after the talks and did not respond to the outcome of the talks.
But media outlets, such as the Afghan Dawn News website, said that Pakistan did not respond to Afghan concerns, such as demanding that Pakistan stop violating Afghan airspace and prevent U.S. drones from flying, but that Pakistan rejected the demands.
It is worth noting that Afghan sources mentioned that they believe that Pakistan has made "unacceptable demands for Afghanistan," that is, the Afghan government list Bata as a terrorist organization and take action against it.
Pakistan-Afghanistan border conflict broke out because the Pakistani Taliban group hiding in Afghanistan crossed the border and launched terrorist attacks on Pakistan, while the Afghan provisional government despite clearly neglecting the relationship with Bata, the historical and cultural roots of the two sides cannot be ignored, which is also an important reason Pakistan accuses Afghanistan of asylum terrorists.
It should be pointed out that although this negotiation was conducted under the mediation of Qatar and Turkey, China, as a neighbor of Pakistan and Afghanistan, has made efforts in promoting the process of peaceful coexistence between the two countries.
On August 20th this year, Foreign Minister Wang Yi also went to Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, and presided over the China-Afghanistan-Pakistan tripartite foreign ministers' dialogue. In this dialogue, Foreign Minister Wang Yi earnestly reminded Afghanistan that China and Pakistan are at the forefront of the international community and regional neighbors in helping Afghanistan stabilize and rebuild and expand foreign exchanges. At the same time, China and Pakistan also promised to expand development cooperation and trade and investment exchanges with Afghanistan.
China and Pakistan have provided so much help to Afghanistan, and their biggest appeal is to cooperate with Afghanistan to jointly combat transnational terrorist activities and eradicate the breeding ground of terrorism by treating both the symptoms and root causes.
At that time, Afghan Foreign Minister Mottaki also made a commitment on the spot, saying that Afghanistan firmly opposes any organization or individual engaging in acts within its own territory that undermine each other's national sovereignty, security and territorial integrity.
Therefore, the breakdown of negotiations between Afghanistan and Pakistan actually failed China's efforts for peace. For China, the collapse of the Pakistan-Arab negotiations also means two relatively big risks.
On the one hand, frequent border conflicts between Pakistan and Afghanistan have seriously affected regional peace and stability and will only give terrorist organizations room to continue to breed and develop. This is also a threat to China.
China, on the other hand, has economic cooperation with Afghanistan, especially Pakistan, and the projects of the Sino-Pakistan Economic Corridor have been repeatedly attacked by terrorists, so Chinese investments and personnel will continue to be threatened if the Bahá'í government fails to reach a consensus to eradicate the terrorist group.