{"id":100943,"date":"2025-11-07T11:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T11:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/istanbul-talks-mediators-endorse-pakistans-evidence-based-stance-against-cross-border-terrorism-says-fo\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T11:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T11:51:07","slug":"istanbul-talks-mediators-endorse-pakistans-evidence-based-stance-against-cross-border-terrorism-says-fo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/istanbul-talks-mediators-endorse-pakistans-evidence-based-stance-against-cross-border-terrorism-says-fo\/","title":{"rendered":"Istanbul talks: Mediators endorse Pakistan&#x27;s evidence-based stance against cross-border terrorism, says FO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>ISLAMABAD: Foreign Office Spokesperson Ambassador Tahir Hussain Andrabi on Friday said that during the Istanbul talks, Pakistan had handed over its evidence-based demands to the mediators with the sole objective of ending cross-border terrorism.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban on Thursday resumed peace talks in Istanbul, marking the third round of negotiations after previous discussions failed to secure a lasting truce. The talks are being held under the joint mediation of Turkiye and Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing his weekly media briefing, the spokesperson said the talks between Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban regime began in Istanbul with the participation of the mediators.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPakistan\u2019s delegation has presented its evidence-based, justified, and logical demands to the mediators with the singular aim of ending cross-border terrorism,\u201d Ambassador Andrabi stated. \u201cThe mediators have fully endorsed Pakistan\u2019s stance based on the evidence provided, as well as on the tenets of international law and principles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that the mediators were now discussing Pakistan\u2019s demands with the Afghan Taliban delegation point by point.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson urged the media to disregard misleading information being circulated on social media, particularly from Afghan-linked accounts, terming such reports as speculative or part of a deliberate disinformation campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, the tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan escalated last month when the Afghan Taliban launched unprovoked attacks on Pakistani positions along the border during the night of October 11\u201312, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides agreed to a temporary ceasefire in Doha on October 19, but a second round of talks in Istanbul last week ended without progress toward a long-term peace deal.<\/p>\n<p>The deadlock stemmed from the Afghan Taliban\u2019s reluctance to act against the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) operating inside Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"Spokesperson&#039;s Weekly Press Briefing 07-11-2025 at Ministry of Foreign Affairs Islamabad\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pUYPUuRY1Yw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Foreign Office Spokesperson Ambassador Tahir Hussain Andrabi on Friday said that during the Istanbul talks, Pakistan had handed over its evidence-based demands to the mediators with the sole objective of ending cross-border terrorism. Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban on Thursday resumed peace talks in Istanbul, marking the third round of negotiations after previous discussions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static.arynews.tv\/zip-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Foreign-Office-Spokesperson-Tahir-Hussain-Andrabi.jpg?imageMogr2\/format\/jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}