China Once Again Pushes For Ceasefire Between Afghanistan And Pakistan | Exclusive

Last Updated:March 16, 2026, 18:10 IST

China has been actively mediating between Afghanistan and Pakistan amid ongoing tensions along their border.

Amid the conflict between Pakistan anf Aghanistan, China has once again urged the two countries to maintain calm, exercise restraint and have a dialogue over the issues.

China has been actively mediating between Afghanistan and Pakistan amid ongoing tensions along their border. Over the past week, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held phone conversations with his Afghan and Pakistani counterparts to encourage dialogue.

In addition, China’s Special Envoy on Afghan Affairs has been shuttling between Pakistan and Afghanistan, while Chinese embassies in both Kabul and Islamabad remain in close contact with officials.

Beijing says it will continue to facilitate reconciliation and ease tensions between the neighbouring countries.

According to top intelligence sources, Beijing is concerned that instability along the Afghanistan Pakistan border could spill into Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. This is threatening the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and Gwadar port, road networks and energy projects where China has invested over $60 billion.

“Any instability in Afghanistan can revive networks linked to Uyghur militant groups such as ETIM and TIP. Any Pakistan Afghanistan escalation could weaken border control and create safe havens that Beijing sees as a direct security threat to Xinjiang," said sources.

Beijing is expanding political, intelligence and mining engagements with the Taliban government. Acting as mediator allows China to position itself as the primary regional power broker while keeping both Kabul and Islamabad strategically dependent on Beijing’s diplomatic backing, they said.

THE TRIGGER

The escalation comes amid heightened tensions between Islamabad and the Taliban-led administration in Kabul over cross-border security concerns along the Durand Line, the border drawn by the British in the 19th century, which has remained a topic of dispute between the two countries.

Pakistan’s security forces responded to what they called “unprovoked fire" by Afghan Taliban forces at multiple points along the Pakistan–Afghanistan border on Thursday, Pakistan’s information ministry said. The ministry wrote on X that Taliban forces opened fire across several sectors in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and that Pakistani troops delivered an “immediate and effective response", inflicting heavy casualties and destroying multiple posts and equipment.

With agency inputs

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