{"id":11675,"date":"2025-04-29T02:03:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T21:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=11675"},"modified":"2025-04-29T02:03:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T21:33:22","slug":"saleh-pashtunization-of-the-north-poses-a-complex-threat-to-russias-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/saleh-pashtunization-of-the-north-poses-a-complex-threat-to-russias-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Saleh: Pashtunization of the North poses a complex threat to Russia&#8217;s security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11676\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Amrullah0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"498\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Green Movement, led by Amrullah Saleh, warned in a statement that &#8220;the expansion of the influence of the Pashtun population in northern Afghanistan after the Doha agreement and the return of the Taliban to power poses a complex threat to Russia and other regional countries that have strategic interests in Central Asia, bringing about challenging changes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">According to the movement, the intensification of radicalism and extremism with the expansion of the Taliban in northern Afghanistan is worrying. With the dominance of the Taliban, whose members are &#8220;95 percent&#8221; Pashtun, radical elements have moved closer to the borders of Central Asia.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The statement said that with the withdrawal of the United States, the power vacuum in favor of China, Turkey and Arab countries has widened and Russia&#8217;s influence has weakened.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">According to the movement, the risk of the penetration of extremist ideologies and the revival of the Taliban&#8217;s ties with radical groups in the North Caucasus, as in the 1990s, has also increased.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This is while the Taliban have recently been seeking to relocate carriers under the guise of refugees in the northern provinces of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Green Movement, led by Amrullah Saleh, warned in a statement that &#8220;the expansion of the influence of the Pashtun population in northern Afghanistan after the Doha agreement and the return of the Taliban to power poses a complex threat to Russia and other regional countries that have strategic interests in Central Asia, bringing about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11678,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11675\/revisions\/11678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}