{"id":21200,"date":"2026-09-06T10:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T10:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/06\/maryam-nawaz-punjab-security-threats-neighbouring-provinces\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T10:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T10:30:16","slug":"maryam-nawaz-punjab-security-threats-neighbouring-provinces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/06\/maryam-nawaz-punjab-security-threats-neighbouring-provinces\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab Faces More Security Threats from Neighboring Provinces, Maryam Nawaz Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maryam Nawaz Sharif, the chief minister of Pakistan&#8217;s Punjab province, has said that the province faces security threats from neighbouring provinces more than from neighbouring countries.<\/p>\n<p>She said at a meeting in Lahore yesterday that she hoped the people of Punjab would spend the night in a fully secure environment. According to her, the security threats facing Punjab from neighbouring countries are fewer, but those from neighbouring provinces are greater.<\/p>\n<p>The remarks come as Pakistani officials have long accused Afghanistan and India of involvement in insecurity and insurgent activity in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Punjab is Pakistan&#8217;s most populous province, and Lahore is its capital. It is considered one of Pakistan&#8217;s most important regions politically and economically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maryam Nawaz says Pakistan\u2019s Punjab faces greater security threats from neighbouring provinces than from neighbouring countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21200","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\/21200","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=21200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}