{"id":22650,"date":"2026-09-26T10:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T10:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/26\/shahbaz-sharif-guterres-afghanistan-security-concerns\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T10:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T10:30:21","slug":"shahbaz-sharif-guterres-afghanistan-security-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/26\/shahbaz-sharif-guterres-afghanistan-security-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Shahbaz Sharif and Guterres discuss Afghanistan and security concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan&#8217;s Prime Minister&#8217;s Office has said that Shahbaz Sharif and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres discussed the situation in Afghanistan and security concerns on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Pakistani prime minister&#8217;s office, the meeting covered Afghanistan, what Islamabad described as &#8220;terrorism originating from Afghan soil,&#8221; as well as a number of regional and international issues.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting came as tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan have risen following Pakistan&#8217;s recent airstrikes on Afghan territory.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistani officials have repeatedly claimed that attacks by armed groups inside Pakistan are planned and carried out from Afghan soil. The Taliban administration has rejected those claims, saying Afghanistan is not responsible for Pakistan&#8217;s &#8220;security failures.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations General Assembly is held every year in New York with the participation of leaders and officials from various countries, and its sideline meetings are usually devoted to discussing major political and security issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shahbaz Sharif and UN chief Antonio Guterres discuss Afghanistan, regional issues and rising Pakistan-Afghanistan tensions in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international","category-secondary-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22650","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=22650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}