The talks were meant to iron out a lasting truce that would calm tensions along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. But after four days of negotiations, Pakistani officials announced that they'd failed to find a solution. In a post on X, Pakistan's information minister, Attaullah Tarar, said that's because the Afghan Taliban government didn't assure Pakistan that it would act against militant groups that target it. These are groups like the TTP that Pakistan says operate from bases inside Afghanistan.