Overview
- Turkey’s Foreign Ministry said both sides affirmed the Doha truce and agreed to a monitoring and verification mechanism that can penalize violations.
- Delegations will return to Istanbul on Nov. 6 for a higher-level session to decide implementation details of the verification system.
- Talks had appeared to collapse earlier in the week, but Pakistan stayed on at the request of mediators Turkey and Qatar, allowing negotiations to resume.
- Pakistan is centering the process on verifiable Afghan action against groups such as the TTP and BLA, while Taliban officials reject claims of sanctuary and say they cannot fully control these fighters.
- The ceasefire has largely held with no new border clashes reported this week, yet major crossings remain shut, stranding traders and refugees and disrupting commerce.