{"id":25080,"date":"2026-10-31T09:49:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T09:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/31\/zalmay-khalilzad-india-advanced-weapons-afghanistan-pakistan\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T09:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T09:49:14","slug":"zalmay-khalilzad-india-advanced-weapons-afghanistan-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/31\/zalmay-khalilzad-india-advanced-weapons-afghanistan-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Zalmay Khalilzad Questions India&#8217;s Proposal to Arm Afghanistan Against Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zalmay Khalilzad, former US Special Representative for Afghanistan, has questioned whether the Indian government will act on a recent suggestion to provide advanced weapons to Afghanistan to help it better defend against Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Sahasini Haidar, an Indian strategic analyst, told the Times of India that India should consider the possibility of offering military support to Afghanistan against Pakistan by supplying anti-drone systems, drone technology, missile systems, and long-range surface-to-surface rockets.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian analyst also urged New Delhi to reconsider formally recognizing the current Afghan government.<\/p>\n<p>These remarks come amid heightened tensions between Kabul and Islamabad and growing discussions about the relations between India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan in the region, alongside new strategic dynamics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zalmay Khalilzad questions India&#8217;s proposal to arm Afghanistan with advanced weapons amid rising tensions with Pakistan and shifting regional dynamics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25080","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\/25080","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=25080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}