Alex Ritson

And also, there are some reports of minor clashes along the Durand line.

What are the people you're talking to saying?

Well, the people of Afghanistan, if you speak to them in the capital Kabul or in the provinces, they are concerned about what's happening.

They also have some concern that what is to come.

But stronger than that concern, you can see anger and fury everywhere.

And they believe that the war will not take them anywhere.

They cannot find any solution by force.

And they think the best way out is to sit on the table and discuss the problems and find a way out.

Pakistan says the Afghan Taliban are supporting the Pakistani Taliban.

Is that true?

Well, that's a claim which the Pakistani officials reiterate whenever there is an incident in Pakistan.

But on the contrary, the Taliban on the other side, they have always been denying that.

When we recently spoke to the defense minister of Taliban, and he said that the attacks which happen inside Pakistan are...

hundreds of kilometers inside the country.

So that is the failure of the Pakistani security forces, which the Taliban government claimed that they are trying to hide by these accusations which they make.

They are saying that they have made a pledge in Qatar that they will not let the soil of Afghanistan to be used against any country.

And they are saying they are still standing by that pledge.

Yeah.

So it is not a threat to any other regional country.

And it is only Pakistan that they are trying to make these sorts of accusations, which they say it is not true.