{"id":5781,"date":"2026-02-01T06:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T06:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/02\/01\/khalilzad-pakistan-approach-fails-balochistan\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T06:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T06:01:11","slug":"khalilzad-pakistan-approach-fails-balochistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/02\/01\/khalilzad-pakistan-approach-fails-balochistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Khalilzad: Pakistan&#8217;s Approach in Balochistan Has Failed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zalmay Khalilzad, the former U.S. special envoy for Afghan peace, has stated that the recent wave of coordinated attacks in Pakistan&#8217;s Balochistan province highlights the failure of Islamabad&#8217;s security approach in the region, which is now facing a serious crisis.<\/p>\n<p>According to Khalilzad, recent events in Balochistan demonstrate that Pakistan&#8217;s current strategy has failed to secure lasting stability and security, showing clear signs of policy failure.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized that the continuation of this situation could have broader consequences for Pakistan&#8217;s internal security. Therefore, a fundamental change in addressing the Balochistan issue is considered essential.<\/p>\n<p>Balochistan, one of Pakistan&#8217;s sensitive and strategic provinces, has long experienced security tensions and local grievances \u2014 an issue brought back to the forefront by the remarks of this former American diplomat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zalmay Khalilzad says Pakistan&#8217;s security approach in Balochistan has failed amid renewed attacks, urging a fundamental change to avoid broader security risks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5781","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\/5781","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=5781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}