Pakistan’s Foreign Office has denied any knowledge of reported negotiations between Pakistan and Afghanistan in Saudi Arabia, stating that Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan would remain closed until Kabul provided firm assurances that cross-border terrorist infiltration would be prevented.

Addressing a weekly news briefing, Foreign Office spokesperson Tahir Hassan Andrabi said, "I can check specific news and call it fake or otherwise. However, I cannot call many news items or sets of information as a blanket fake or a blanket misinformation."

The Foreign Office’s remarks came in the backdrop of a Reuters report claiming that Pakistan and Afghanistan recently participated in a third round of peace talks in Saudi Arabia, hosted jointly by Saudi Arabia, Turkiye, and Qatar. The report said

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