{"id":14029,"date":"2026-05-31T08:45:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T08:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/31\/informal-talks-kabul-islamabad-kabul\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T08:45:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T08:45:57","slug":"informal-talks-kabul-islamabad-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/31\/informal-talks-kabul-islamabad-kabul\/","title":{"rendered":"New Round of Informal Talks Between Kabul and Islamabad Expected in Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Informed sources have told Tolo News that the next round of informal talks between Kabul and Islamabad will likely be held in Kabul. This meeting is planned as part of ongoing efforts to maintain communication channels between the two sides.<\/p>\n<p>According to these sources, the talks were initially scheduled to take place in Kabul before Eid al-Adha but were postponed due to some challenges on the Pakistani side. So far, no further details about the nature of these challenges have been released.<\/p>\n<p>In the first round of these talks, representatives from Afghanistan included Atif Mashal, Obaidullah Bahir, Jafar Mahdawi, and Ghanch-e-Gul. On the Pakistani side, Asif Durrani, Mushahid Hussain, and Hamid Mir participated in the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>These informal talks are unfolding amid significant fluctuations in Kabul-Islamabad relations in recent years. The continuation of such meetings could influence the political and security interactions between the two sides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next informal talks between Kabul and Islamabad expected in Kabul, aiming to maintain communication amid recent challenges in bilateral relations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14029","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\/14029","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=14029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}