{"id":757,"date":"2025-10-14T12:34:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T12:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/10\/14\/khalilzad-criticizes-pakistan-double-standards-afghanistan-policy\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T12:34:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T12:34:19","slug":"khalilzad-criticizes-pakistan-double-standards-afghanistan-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/10\/14\/khalilzad-criticizes-pakistan-double-standards-afghanistan-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Khalilzad Criticizes Pakistan\u2019s Double Standards on Afghanistan Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zalmay Khalilzad, the former US envoy for Afghan peace, has sharply criticized Pakistan\u2019s double standards regarding Afghanistan\u2019s political situation in response to recent statements by Pakistani officials.<\/p>\n<p>Khalilzad referred to remarks from some Pakistani leaders calling for the rule of a true representative of the Afghan people as \u201ckind but hypocritical.\u201d He emphasized that Islamabad has supported groups that have contributed to Afghanistan\u2019s instability for decades.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that within Pakistan itself, the intelligence agency and military hold power, while the country\u2019s former popular leader, Imran Khan, has been imprisoned and non-transparent elections have taken place.<\/p>\n<p>Khalilzad suggested that instead of offering ineffective advice to other countries, Pakistan\u2019s leaders should focus on their internal issues, including resolving armed insurgencies in the provinces of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.<\/p>\n<p>These criticisms come amid highly tense Afghanistan-Pakistan relations, marked by the Taliban\u2019s presence and militant group activities, especially in border regions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zalmay Khalilzad criticizes Pakistan\u2019s double policies on Afghanistan, urging Islamabad to focus on internal issues amid ongoing regional tensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757","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\/757","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=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}