{"id":12550,"date":"2026-05-09T10:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T10:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/09\/pakistan-expands-regional-cooperation-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T10:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T10:30:18","slug":"pakistan-expands-regional-cooperation-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/09\/pakistan-expands-regional-cooperation-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Emphasizes Expanding Regional Cooperation with Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan&#8217;s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister has stated that Islamabad is striving to enhance trilateral and regional cooperation with Afghanistan, China, Bangladesh, and several other neighboring countries. Ishaq Dar, speaking on Friday evening at the South Asian Federation of Accountants (SAFA) meeting in Lahore, said that no country can afford isolation in the current circumstances, and regional cooperation has become a necessity. He emphasized that South Asian countries can achieve significant gains through economic collaboration. According to him, strengthening stability and integration in the region will benefit all countries involved. These remarks come amid ongoing economic and political challenges and geopolitical rivalries among South Asian nations, where efforts to establish frameworks for joint cooperation remain a central focus of regional discussions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan calls for expanded regional cooperation with Afghanistan and neighbors to boost economic gains and regional stability amid ongoing geopolitical challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12550","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=12550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}