{"id":5315,"date":"2026-01-16T17:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T17:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/01\/16\/pakistan-insists-written-guarantees-taliban-security\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T17:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T17:25:10","slug":"pakistan-insists-written-guarantees-taliban-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/01\/16\/pakistan-insists-written-guarantees-taliban-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Continues to Insist on Written Guarantees from the Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tahir Andrabi, spokesman for Pakistan&#8217;s Foreign Ministry, stated that Islamabad&#8217;s demands from the Taliban have not changed and that obtaining written and verifiable guarantees remains a priority.<\/p>\n<p>Andrabi expressed hope that a response will be received from Kabul on this matter.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding diplomatic relations between the Taliban and India, he described it as a bilateral issue.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Islamabad does not consider these collaborations a &#8220;zero-sum game&#8221; as long as there is no support for terrorist elements against Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Andrabi emphasized that preventing the use of Afghan soil against Pakistan\u2019s security is the main focus of Islamabad\u2019s demands from the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban and Pakistan have so far held three rounds of talks in Qatar and Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p>Although the first round resulted in a ceasefire agreement, subsequent stages did not produce a more comprehensive deal due to Pakistan&#8217;s insistence on receiving written guarantees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan insists on written guarantees from the Taliban, prioritizing security and prevention of Afghan soil use against Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international","category-secondary-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5315","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=5315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}