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Can China End the Pakistan-Afghanistan Conflict?

Squabble’s consequences beyond the two countries’ borders

Dec 23, 2025
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
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China’s latest offer to mediate the cross-border skirmish between Taliban-led Afghanistan and Pakistan that began on October 9 and has left dozens of people dead and hundreds wounded comes with Islamabad reeling from the attacks and Kabul asserting political defiance in an affair whose consequences are starting to ripple w…

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