{"id":15626,"date":"2026-06-20T13:15:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T13:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/06\/20\/afghanistan-un-representative-calls-to-end-threats-against-former-military\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T13:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T13:15:18","slug":"afghanistan-un-representative-calls-to-end-threats-against-former-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/06\/20\/afghanistan-un-representative-calls-to-end-threats-against-former-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan UN Representative Calls for Halt to Pressure and Threats Against Former Military Personnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nasir Ahmad Faeeq, Afghanistan&#8217;s representative to the United Nations, responding to reports of killings of former military personnel, stated that the country\u2019s military and security forces have fallen victim to the \u201ccrimes of the Taliban.\u201d He emphasized that these individuals have faced targeted threats and eliminations following political developments in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Faeeq wrote on his X page that former military and security forces, in addition to being victims of what he described as \u201cTaliban crimes,\u201d are also betrayed by those who, according to him, weakened the peace process and handed Afghanistan and its people over to the Taliban administration. He did not provide further details on the individuals he referred to.<\/p>\n<p>The Afghan envoy to the UN added that the consequences of those decisions today weigh heavily on millions of citizens, including women, girls, youth, and former military personnel. According to him, these groups face widespread restrictions, threats, and pressures.<\/p>\n<p>Faeeq further pointed to historical experiences, asserting that the current situation is unsustainable and that no authoritarian regime endures in the long term. These remarks come amid numerous reports of ongoing pressures and harsh measures by the Taliban administration against some former military members and employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan&#8217;s UN envoy urges stopping threats and violence against former military personnel amid ongoing Taliban pressures and political turmoil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-politics","category-secondary-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15626","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=15626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}