#pakistan-afghanistan-relations

#pakistan-afghanistan-relations

Abdul Ghani Baradar, the deputy head of the Taliban-led regime in Kabul, recently announced a complete import ban on Pakistani medicines into Afghanistan. Baradar, who is also responsible for economic affairs, decried the quality of Pakistani medicine as "poor," while giving Afghan importers three months to settle their debts with Pakistani companies and find new sources of supply. But finding new suppliers is easier said than done.

The talks were meant to iron out a lasting truce that would calm tensions along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. But after four days of negotiations, Pakistani officials announced that they'd failed to find a solution. In a post on X, Pakistan's information minister, Attaullah Tarar, said that's because the Afghan Taliban government didn't assure Pakistan that it would act against militant groups that target it. These are groups like the TTP that Pakistan says operate from bases inside Afghanistan.