{"id":58,"date":"2025-09-06T09:38:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T09:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/?p=58"},"modified":"2025-09-15T08:15:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T08:15:33","slug":"pakistan-responds-to-taliban-defense-ministers-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/09\/06\/pakistan-responds-to-taliban-defense-ministers-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Responds to Taliban Defense Minister\u2019s Remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following sharp criticism from Mullah Yaqoob, the Taliban administration\u2019s Minister of Defense, over Pakistan\u2019s handling of militant groups, the Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued a response, describing the remarks as \u201csarcastic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shafqat Ali Khan, spokesperson for Pakistan\u2019s Foreign Ministry, said at a press briefing: \u201cIt seems like a joke,\u201d directly referring to the Taliban defense official\u2019s statement that accused Islamabad of being unable to address security threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He added that the main problem lies in the presence of militant sanctuaries inside Afghanistan, stating: \u201cI want to reiterate that the sanctuaries of terrorists, particularly the menace of Khawarij, in Afghanistan are a serious issue.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pakistani spokesperson once again urged the Taliban administration to take concrete action against terrorist hideouts on Afghan soil. For years, Pakistan has repeatedly claimed that Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) insurgents plan their attacks from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These reactions come as the Taliban authorities have consistently denied the presence of extremist groups in Afghanistan, a claim that does not align with regional and international security concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan rejected Taliban Defense Minister Mullah Yaqoob\u2019s criticism, calling it \u201csarcastic,\u201d and reiterated its demand for action against militant sanctuaries in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-politics","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}