{"id":3314,"date":"2025-12-14T12:15:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T12:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/14\/pakistan-security-concerns-tehran-afghanistan-taliban\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T12:15:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T12:15:17","slug":"pakistan-security-concerns-tehran-afghanistan-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/14\/pakistan-security-concerns-tehran-afghanistan-taliban\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Urges Serious Action on Security Concerns at Tehran Meeting on Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a regional meeting in Tehran focused on Afghanistan, Pakistan\u2019s special envoy for Afghanistan emphasized the urgent need to address his country\u2019s security concerns, particularly those related to terrorism. Mohammad Sadiq Khan stated that Islamabad seeks peace, development, and lasting stability in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting brought together special envoys from Afghanistan&#8217;s neighboring countries\u2014Russia, Pakistan, China, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan. However, the Taliban administration declined to participate, a move analysts say could hinder regional efforts to coordinate on Afghanistan\u2019s pressing security and political challenges.<\/p>\n<p>During the same meeting, Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi stressed that the security and stability of neighboring countries are directly linked to peace and stability in Afghanistan. He highlighted the need to establish regular and lasting mechanisms for dialogue among Afghanistan\u2019s neighbors to manage shared challenges.<\/p>\n<p>The gathering comes at a time when Afghanistan continues to grapple with significant security and political concerns across the region, and the Taliban&#8217;s absence from such talks raises questions about their commitment to regional engagement and responsiveness to neighbors\u2019 concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan calls for serious action on terrorism concerns at a Tehran summit on Afghanistan, as the Taliban declines to participate in regional talks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3314","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\/3314","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=3314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}