{"id":12998,"date":"2025-08-18T05:54:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T01:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=12998"},"modified":"2025-08-18T05:54:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T01:24:13","slug":"pakistan-hosts-taliban-opposition-meeting-new-rift-in-islamabad-taliban-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/pakistan-hosts-taliban-opposition-meeting-new-rift-in-islamabad-taliban-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan hosts Taliban opposition meeting; new rift in Islamabad-Taliban relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12990\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/pak-afggg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Pakistan hosts Taliban opposition meeting; new rift in Islamabad-Taliban relations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Islamabad is hosting a group of political leaders, civil society activists and figures opposing the Taliban from Afghanistan. The two-day meeting, titled &#8220;Towards Unity and Trust,&#8221; is being held at the initiative of a Pakistani academic institution.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Sources say the meeting includes figures such as Nasir Ahmad Andisha, Mustafa Mastoor, Fawzia Kofi and Hussain Yassa. The Taliban have opposed it, but organizers say the meeting is a \u201cscientific initiative for peace.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The gathering is the first public gathering of Taliban opponents in Pakistan since the group returned to power, and some observers see it as a sign of a possible shift in Islamabad\u2019s approach to Afghanistan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Former US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad called Pakistan\u2019s move \u201cirresponsible,\u201d while Fawzia Kofi called it a positive step toward building trust and restoring women\u2019s rights.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan hosts Taliban opposition meeting; new rift in Islamabad-Taliban relations. Islamabad is hosting a group of political leaders, civil society activists and figures opposing the Taliban from Afghanistan. The two-day meeting, titled &#8220;Towards Unity and Trust,&#8221; is being held at the initiative of a Pakistani academic institution. Sources say the meeting includes figures such as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12998","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\/12998","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=12998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12999,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12998\/revisions\/12999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}