Overview
- Meeting on the UN General Assembly sidelines, the quartet urged “effective, concrete, verifiable” steps that dismantle camps, block recruitment and financing, and cut access to weapons on Afghan soil.
- Their statement named ISIS, Al-Qaeda, the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, the Balochistan Liberation Army, and Jaish al-Adl as serious threats to regional and global security.
- The ministers called for intensified humanitarian aid, revisions to the UN 1988 sanctions regime, and the unfreezing of Afghan funds to help stabilize the economy.
- They commended reduced opium cultivation, warned about rising synthetic drug production including methamphetamine, urged conditions for refugee returns, and opposed any new foreign military bases in or around Afghanistan.
- In parallel diplomacy, Pakistan proposed an OIC Contact Group expert working group to draft a reciprocal roadmap and highlighted recent cross-border violence, citing 12 Pakistani soldiers killed this month in clashes with TTP infiltrators.