{"id":24104,"date":"2026-10-17T09:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T09:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/17\/ashraf-ghani-pakistan-afghanistan-hostility-friendship\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T09:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T09:31:13","slug":"ashraf-ghani-pakistan-afghanistan-hostility-friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/17\/ashraf-ghani-pakistan-afghanistan-hostility-friendship\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashraf Ghani Urges Pakistan to Choose Between Hostility and Friendship with Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ashraf Ghani, Afghanistan&#8217;s former president, warned Pakistan years ago that the time had come to make a decision and that the country must choose between hostility and friendship with Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>In one of his speeches, he stressed that the era in which a country could speak of friendship while acting in the opposite way was over. Referring to Pakistan&#8217;s support for armed groups inside Afghanistan, Ghani described the move as nurturing &#8220;snakes and monsters&#8221; in its own sleeve.<\/p>\n<p>He also warned that if the flames of war in Afghanistan were to rise, Pakistan would not be spared the negative consequences. Ghani made these warnings at a time when Pakistan was supporting the Taliban so that the war in Afghanistan would continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashraf Ghani warned Pakistan to choose between hostility and friendship with Afghanistan as tensions and support for armed groups continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24104","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\/24104","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=24104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}