{"id":11997,"date":"2026-05-02T18:10:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T18:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/02\/taliban-rejects-pakistan-information-minister-claims-afghan-journalists\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T18:10:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T18:10:44","slug":"taliban-rejects-pakistan-information-minister-claims-afghan-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/02\/taliban-rejects-pakistan-information-minister-claims-afghan-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Rejects Pakistan Information Minister&#8217;s Claims About Afghan Journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban&#8217;s Department of Information and Culture has dismissed recent statements by Pakistan&#8217;s Information Minister regarding Afghan journalists as &#8220;baseless and worrying.&#8221; In a statement, the department emphasized that Afghan journalists carry out their work within the framework of national interests and responsible journalism principles.<\/p>\n<p>The statement noted that making such allegations could negatively impact the media working environment and complicate media relations between the two countries. While the Taliban&#8217;s department did not provide further details about the nature of these remarks, it described them as unfounded.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the Department of Information and Culture accused Pakistan of raising this issue in an effort to divert public attention from recent attacks on Kunar University and a drug rehabilitation center in Kabul.<\/p>\n<p>This comes amid ongoing challenges to media freedom in Afghanistan over recent years, with numerous journalistic organizations continually calling for a safe and free environment for journalists \u2014 a demand that remains a serious concern in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban&#8217;s Department of Information and Culture rejects Pakistan&#8217;s Information Minister&#8217;s claims about Afghan journalists as baseless and warns of negative media impacts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11997","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\/11997","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=11997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}