{"id":24624,"date":"2026-10-24T14:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T14:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/24\/khalilzad-warns-taliban-pakistan-relations-will-sharply-worsen\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T14:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T14:30:15","slug":"khalilzad-warns-taliban-pakistan-relations-will-sharply-worsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/24\/khalilzad-warns-taliban-pakistan-relations-will-sharply-worsen\/","title":{"rendered":"Khalilzad warns Taliban-Pakistan ties will sharply worsen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zalmay Khalilzad, the former U.S. envoy for Afghanistan peace talks, has warned that relations between the Taliban administration and Pakistan could deteriorate further.<\/p>\n<p>Writing on the social media platform X, he said reports have emerged of Pakistan supporting groups fighting against the Taliban in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Khalilzad also added that, alongside this, there are reports that the Pakistani army is recruiting Afghans to fight against its opponents.<\/p>\n<p>The remarks come as The New York Times, in its latest report, pointed to meetings between Pakistani military and intelligence officials and Taliban opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Relations between the Taliban administration and Pakistan have sharply soured in recent months, with sporadic clashes reported between the two sides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zalmay Khalilzad warns that Taliban-Pakistan relations could worsen as reports emerge of support for anti-Taliban groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24624","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\/24624","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=24624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}