{"id":15692,"date":"2026-02-23T00:27:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T19:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=15692"},"modified":"2026-02-23T00:27:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T19:57:40","slug":"pakistans-game-of-death-and-politics-invitation-to-taliban-opponents-simultaneous-with-bombing-of-eastern-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/pakistans-game-of-death-and-politics-invitation-to-taliban-opponents-simultaneous-with-bombing-of-eastern-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan\u2019s game of death and politics; invitation to Taliban opponents simultaneous with bombing of eastern Afghanistan."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pakistan\u2019s game of death and politics; invitation to Taliban opponents simultaneous with bombing of eastern Afghanistan.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Credible sources say Pakistani officials have officially invited a number of anti\u2011Taliban figures to come to Islamabad to hold talks about Afghanistan\u2019s political future.<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to these sources, if accepted, the meeting would be held within less than a week. So far none of the opposition figures have issued an official response, but the invitation itself has been interpreted in Afghanistan\u2019s political circles as a sign of a possible shift in Pakistan\u2019s approach.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This diplomatic activity is taking place while reports have also emerged about the potential political and even military support for Taliban opponents.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Taliban have stated that they discovered and confiscated dozens of weapons at the Torkham border crossing, which they claim were entering Afghanistan from Pakistan.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Political observers say that growing insecurity in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Islamabad\u2019s dissatisfaction with Taliban performance in suppressing anti\u2011Pakistan armed groups may have pushed Pakistani authorities toward a serious reevaluation of past policies; policies that, according to some Pakistani analysts, have not secured Islamabad\u2019s strategic interests and have imposed heavy security costs on the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, tensions have not remained only at the political level. Alongside news of the invitation to Taliban opponents, Pakistan has bombarded parts of eastern Afghanistan.<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to local sources, these attacks have resulted in more than 25 civilian casualties, killed and wounded.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The simultaneity of political negotiations in Islamabad with bombings in eastern Afghan regions is seen as an explicit sign that Taliban\u2011Pakistan relations have entered a new, tense, and unprecedented phase; a phase that could have wider security consequences for the region.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pakistan\u2019s game of death and politics; invitation to Taliban opponents simultaneous with bombing of eastern Afghanistan. Credible sources say Pakistani officials have officially invited a number of anti\u2011Taliban figures to come to Islamabad to hold talks about Afghanistan\u2019s political future. According to these sources, if accepted, the meeting would be held within less than a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15692","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\/15692","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=15692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15700,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15692\/revisions\/15700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}