{"id":25634,"date":"2026-11-08T15:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/11\/08\/taliban-army-chief-opposition-foreign-backed-pakistan-support\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T15:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T15:00:17","slug":"taliban-army-chief-opposition-foreign-backed-pakistan-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/11\/08\/taliban-army-chief-opposition-foreign-backed-pakistan-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Army Chief Labels Opposition as Foreign-Backed and Pakistan-Supported"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fasihuddin Fathat, the Chief of Staff of the Taliban army, on Sunday, November 7, during a graduation ceremony for newly recruited Taliban forces in Kabul, described the opposition fronts as non-Afghan and theatrical. He claimed that the opponents of the Taliban are fighting against the Taliban administration under Pakistan&#8217;s orders.<\/p>\n<p>These remarks come as the Taliban, following attacks by opposition fronts in certain districts of Badakhshan and Nuristan provinces, began recruiting forces about four months ago. Fathat&#8217;s allegation regarding Pakistan&#8217;s role in supporting the Taliban&#8217;s opponents has not been officially denied by Pakistani officials; rather, similar accusations have been leveled against the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>The mutual accusations between the Taliban administration and Pakistan highlight the complex security and political situation in Afghanistan, with widespread negative impacts on the country&#8217;s stability and security. These tensions continue as the Afghan people grapple with the consequences of daily insecurity and instability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban army chief accuses opposition of being foreign-backed and supported by Pakistan amid ongoing security tensions in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25634","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\/25634","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=25634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}