{"id":7482,"date":"2026-02-22T06:50:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T06:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/02\/22\/karzai-condemns-pakistan-airstrikes-violation-afghan-sovereignty\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T06:50:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T06:50:36","slug":"karzai-condemns-pakistan-airstrikes-violation-afghan-sovereignty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/02\/22\/karzai-condemns-pakistan-airstrikes-violation-afghan-sovereignty\/","title":{"rendered":"Karzai Condemns Pakistan\u2019s Airstrikes as Violation of Afghan Sovereignty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hamid Karzai, former President of Afghanistan, strongly condemned last night\u2019s Pakistani military airstrikes on parts of Nangarhar and Paktika provinces, calling them a clear violation of Afghanistan\u2019s national sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Karzai urged Pakistani authorities to reconsider their policies towards Afghanistan and to adopt a path of good neighborliness based on civilized principles rather than military approaches. He emphasized that respecting the territorial integrity of nations is a fundamental principle in relations between states.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Abdul Salam Zaeef, former Afghan ambassador to Islamabad, also responded to the attacks. Writing on his X page, he described the airstrikes targeting civilians as a \u201ccowardly\u201d act, conflicting with Islamic principles, international norms, and rules of good neighborliness.<\/p>\n<p>According to Zaeef, Pakistani military officials, instead of taking responsibility, targeted civilians. As of the time of this report, Pakistani officials have not issued any public response to these statements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamid Karzai condemns Pakistani airstrikes on Afghan provinces, calling them a breach of sovereignty; former ambassador calls attacks on civilians cowardly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7482","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\/7482","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=7482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}