{"id":12956,"date":"2026-05-13T14:10:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/13\/pakistani-ambassador-foreign-forces-kabul-islamabad-tensions\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T14:10:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:10:26","slug":"pakistani-ambassador-foreign-forces-kabul-islamabad-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/13\/pakistani-ambassador-foreign-forces-kabul-islamabad-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani Ambassador Claims Foreign Forces Stoked Tensions Between Kabul and Islamabad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan\u2019s ambassador to Russia has stated that amid recent tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan, certain foreign forces have attempted to damage relations between the two countries through intelligence activities. Faisal Niaz Tirmizi said these actions aimed to pit Kabul and Islamabad against each other. However, according to him, the situation has now stabilized and clashes have ended.<\/p>\n<p>TASS news agency, citing the Pakistani diplomat, reported that &#8220;some foreign forces tried to create conflicts between Afghanistan and Pakistan through intelligence operations and other means.&#8221; He did not provide further details about the identity of these forces or the specifics of their alleged activities.<\/p>\n<p>These remarks come as Kabul-Islamabad relations have faced border tensions and mutual accusations in recent months. Yet the lack of transparency regarding the possible perpetrators and absence of concrete evidence has raised questions about the actual scope of these claims.<\/p>\n<p>With the Taliban administration responsible for Afghanistan\u2019s foreign policy, it is expected that clearer and more diplomatic responses to such allegations will be presented to prevent growing distrust in the region and to avoid escalation of political and security tensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan&#8217;s ambassador alleges foreign forces fueled tensions between Kabul and Islamabad through intelligence activities, but says situation now stable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12956","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\/12956","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=12956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}