Pakistan Afghanistan Conflict: Whispers travel fast when peace talks carry secrets. That is what unfolded in Turkey during the Afghanistan-Pakistan negotiations that paused a violent season in September and October. A source quoted by Afghanistan’s TOLO News described a moment no one at the table expected. Pakistan acknowledged that drone strikes inside Afghanistan follow a “confidential agreement” with a “foreign partner”. Delegates conveyed that Islamabad cannot stop these attacks. Breaking the accord, they explained, does not remain an option.

“It was also revealed that, for the first time, Pakistan admitted to having an agreement with a foreign country allowing drone strikes, and that it cannot prevent such strikes because breaking the agreement is not possible,” the Kabul-based news

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