{"id":17545,"date":"2026-07-14T14:15:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T14:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/14\/taliban-afghan-envoy-memorial-former-qatari-emir\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T14:15:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T14:15:36","slug":"taliban-afghan-envoy-memorial-former-qatari-emir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/14\/taliban-afghan-envoy-memorial-former-qatari-emir\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Representative Attends Memorial Ceremony for Former Qatari Emir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sanaullah Farahmand, appointed by the Taliban administration as Afghanistan&#8217;s ambassador to Ankara, participated in a memorial prayer ceremony for Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the former Emir of Qatar. The event was organized by the Qatari embassy in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement issued by the Afghan embassy in Turkey, Mr. Farahmand expressed his condolences during a meeting with the Qatari ambassador. He also registered his message of sympathy in the memorial book for the former Emir of Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani was considered a prominent political figure in the region, playing an active role in diplomatic developments in the Middle East during his reign. In recent years, Qatar has been one of the hosts of political talks related to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Since returning to power, the Taliban administration has sought to maintain and expand diplomatic relations with several regional countries; however, it has not yet been officially recognized by many nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban-appointed Afghan envoy participates in memorial for Qatar&#8217;s former Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani in Turkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17545","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\/17545","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=17545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}