{"id":22980,"date":"2026-09-30T13:33:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T13:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/30\/taliban-some-countries-not-ready-to-engage-diplomatic-ties\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T13:33:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T13:33:15","slug":"taliban-some-countries-not-ready-to-engage-diplomatic-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/30\/taliban-some-countries-not-ready-to-engage-diplomatic-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Countries Still Not Ready to Engage With Taliban Administration, Spokesman Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesman for the Taliban administration, says a number of countries are still not ready to engage with it. He added that the Taliban administration is working to expand diplomatic ties and win the trust of other countries.<\/p>\n<p>Mujahid called for a change in foreign relations approaches left over from the war era and said the Taliban administration wants positive engagement with countries instead. He said: &#8220;We want relations with other countries to be established properly, and for wartime policies toward countries to change, so that we can enter into positive engagement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban administration spokesman described its ties with China and Russia as &#8220;very good&#8221; and said efforts are also under way to improve relations with other countries. In a brief reference to rising tensions with Islamabad, he claimed the Taliban administration has had good diplomatic relations with neighboring countries, including Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid says some countries are not ready to engage, while the group seeks stronger diplomatic ties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22980","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\/22980","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=22980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}