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Islamabad/Kabul: Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has warned that Islamabad “can obliterate the Taliban regime” if militant attacks from Afghan soil continue and that any aggression would be met with a response “50 times stronger”.

Speaking to Pakistani media after the collapse of Afghan-Pakistan talks in Istanbul, Asif attacked Afghanistan’s leadership, claiming it was being manipulated by India.

Accusing Afghanistan’s leadership of “madness” and claiming that New Delhi has growing influence over the Taliban regime, Asif said, “We attempted with full sincerity to have good relations with our neighbour… But now they have given their control to New Delhi, then it is tough. We can only pray that better sense prevails.”

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