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China on Wednesday said that Afghanistan and Pakistan have agreed to explore a comprehensive resolution to the conflict that broke out between the two bordering nations last October.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning told a daily press briefing that both countries agreed at the meetings in China not to take actions that would escalate or complicate the situation.
Mao added that China would continue to communicate with both countries and provide a platform for dialogue.
Beijing has sought to mediate in the ongoing conflict between Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban regime, as Islamabad continues its Operation Ghazab lil-Haq, launched in February to eliminate terrorist safe havens in Afghanistan.
Security forces launched the operation in response to suicide bombings in Islamabad, Bajaur, and Bannu, all of which were traced back to militants based in Afghanistan.
As of April 5, security forces have killed 796 Taliban regime personnel and terrorists and injured over 1043 during the military operation.
In a post on X summarising Afghan Taliban losses, Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said that 286 posts of the Afghan Taliban regime have been destroyed and 44 captured.
The military's top brass on Tuesday vowed to maintain the pace of the military operation until terrorist safe havens in Afghanistan are eliminated and Afghan soil is no longer used against Pakistan.
The development emerged during the 274th Corps Commanders' Conference (CCC), presided over by Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) and Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir at the General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, read a statement from the Inter-Services Public Relations.
The forum reviewed the prevailing internal and external security environment, reaffirming that all terrorist proxies operating on the behest of India and other external sponsors, along with their facilitators and abettors, will be pursued and eliminated, relentlessly, and without exception, it said.
Border tensions have flared up months after an October 2025 ceasefire, which followed brief clashes sparked by unprovoked firing by the Afghan Taliban personnel at several points along the border.
Islamabad, however, back then had agreed to an initial ceasefire at Kabul's request. The countries then later reached a ceasefire deal in Qatar, which was mediated by Doha and Turkiye.
Under the agreement, terrorism from Afghanistan on Pakistani soil was to be stopped immediately.
However, the subsequent talks in Turkiye failed to yield an agreement, as the Afghan Taliban refused to address Islamabad's core concern over terrorism originating from Afghan soil.
