{"id":24130,"date":"2026-10-18T05:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T05:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/18\/fazlur-rehman-pakistan-policies-economy-regional-ties\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T05:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T05:30:16","slug":"fazlur-rehman-pakistan-policies-economy-regional-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/18\/fazlur-rehman-pakistan-policies-economy-regional-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Fazl-ur-Rehman says Pakistan policies are hurting economy and regional ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maulana Fazlur Rehman, leader of Pakistan&#8217;s Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, strongly criticised the country&#8217;s government and military policies, saying they had led to the closure of western borders with Afghanistan, the suspension of trade, and damage to business and livelihoods.<\/p>\n<p>He added that China had lost confidence in Pakistan and described the imposition of emergency rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as a move to control mineral resources and create conditions for American investment.<\/p>\n<p>Fazlur Rehman asked why foreign investors should be attracted to Afghanistan while Pakistani traders are taking their capital out of the country.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed the need for security, transparency in agreements and the rule of law as essential conditions for attracting investment, and called on Pakistani officials to answer for the country&#8217;s economic situation.<\/p>\n<p>The political leader also said China and Russia have concerns about the presence of foreign forces in the region and described Pakistan&#8217;s current policies as unacceptable to those countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fazlur Rehman criticises Pakistan&#8217;s policies, saying they are hurting the economy, trade and regional relations with Afghanistan and China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24130","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\/24130","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=24130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}