{"id":12981,"date":"2025-08-17T06:58:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T02:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=12981"},"modified":"2025-08-17T06:58:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T02:28:36","slug":"khalilzad-criticizes-pakistans-policy-towards-the-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/khalilzad-criticizes-pakistans-policy-towards-the-taliban\/","title":{"rendered":"Khalilzad criticizes Pakistan\u2019s policy towards the Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12977\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/khalilzad-talibbb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Khalilzad criticizes Pakistan\u2019s policy towards the Taliban.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Zalmay Khalilzad, the former US special representative for Afghanistan, has criticized the holding of a meeting of Taliban opponents in Pakistan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>On Saturday, August 15, he wrote on the social network X that the meeting will be held in Pakistan on the 15th and 16th of this month and that some participants are calling for the violent overthrow of the Taliban.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Khalilzad has emphasized that Afghan citizens have the right to express their political views, but Pakistan\u2019s apparent support for them is \u201cunwise, irresponsible and provocative.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>According to him, relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan are currently facing deep distrust and such actions will only worsen the situation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The former US representative did not provide further details about the participants of the meeting.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khalilzad criticizes Pakistan\u2019s policy towards the Taliban. Zalmay Khalilzad, the former US special representative for Afghanistan, has criticized the holding of a meeting of Taliban opponents in Pakistan. On Saturday, August 15, he wrote on the social network X that the meeting will be held in Pakistan on the 15th and 16th of this month [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12981","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\/12981","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=12981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12982,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12981\/revisions\/12982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}