{"id":25144,"date":"2026-10-31T18:45:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T18:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/31\/pakistan-pm-shehbaz-sharif-accuses-imran-khan-armed-groups-return-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T18:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T18:45:16","slug":"pakistan-pm-shehbaz-sharif-accuses-imran-khan-armed-groups-return-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/31\/pakistan-pm-shehbaz-sharif-accuses-imran-khan-armed-groups-return-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif Accuses Imran Khan of Facilitating Return of Armed Groups from Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shehbaz Sharif, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, has accused former Prime Minister Imran Khan of enabling the return and settlement of armed groups from Afghanistan into the Swat region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. He claimed this move has led to a resurgence of terrorist activities and caused security and economic damage to Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>In a Saturday meeting on November 30, Shehbaz Sharif stated that the decision to transfer these armed individuals was made during Imran Khan&#8217;s government, particularly with the cooperation of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial government led by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party. However, he did not present any concrete evidence to support these allegations. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and Imran Khan\u2019s supporters have previously denied these accusations.<\/p>\n<p>The Pakistani Prime Minister also defended his government\u2019s decision to impose direct federal rule and declare an emergency situation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Discussions about the return of members of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan from Afghanistan to various areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa emerged in 2022, following peace talks between the group and the Pakistani government.<\/p>\n<p>These remarks have heightened concerns over the security situation along the shared Afghanistan-Pakistan border, where the return of armed forces, especially in the tribal areas and Swat, could have serious implications for regional stability and security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif accuses ex-PM Imran Khan of facilitating armed groups&#8217; return from Afghanistan, raising security and economic concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25144","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\/25144","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=25144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}