{"id":11422,"date":"2026-04-25T17:45:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T17:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/25\/taliban-interior-minister-foreign-athletes-message-stability-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T17:45:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T17:45:24","slug":"taliban-interior-minister-foreign-athletes-message-stability-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/25\/taliban-interior-minister-foreign-athletes-message-stability-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Interior Minister Urges Foreign Athletes to Convey Message of Stability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Khalifa Sirajuddin Haqqani, the Taliban&#8217;s Interior Minister, met on Saturday in Kabul with representatives and athletes from countries participating in the international traditional wrestling competition. He stated that the presence of foreign athletes signifies that the &#8220;message of peace and stability in Afghanistan&#8221; is spreading. According to Haqqani, the experience of hosting and welcoming foreign guests indicates that the country is steadily moving toward &#8220;prosperity and progress.&#8221; He added that athletes, as sports ambassadors of their countries, can convey a positive image of Afghanistan to the world. The Taliban Interior Minister also expressed appreciation for the foreign participants and urged them to take the message of &#8220;peace, brotherhood, and stability&#8221; back to their home countries. This comes as the Taliban administration has faced widespread international criticism over more than four years concerning social restrictions, especially regarding women&#8217;s rights and civil participation. Numerous international organizations have repeatedly emphasized that holding sporting events cannot substitute for fundamental reforms in the protection of citizens&#8217; rights and fundamental freedoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban&#8217;s Interior Minister urges foreign athletes to spread Afghanistan&#8217;s message of peace and stability amid ongoing international criticism of social restrictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}