{"id":8528,"date":"2026-03-10T05:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T05:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/03\/10\/taliban-political-office-doha-remains-active-denies-closure-reports\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T05:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T05:46:08","slug":"taliban-political-office-doha-remains-active-denies-closure-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/03\/10\/taliban-political-office-doha-remains-active-denies-closure-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban&#8217;s Political Office Remains Active in Doha; Taliban Official Denies Closure Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Taliban administration official at their embassy in Qatar has stated that the Qatari government has not requested the closure of the Taliban&#8217;s political office in Doha. According to the official, recent reports in some media outlets suggesting that Qatar might have asked the Taliban to shut down their office are not true.<\/p>\n<p>In recent days, several media sources reported that Qatar had asked the Taliban administration to cease operations of its political office in Doha. These reports sparked widespread reactions, but Taliban-affiliated officials have now denied them.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban&#8217;s political office in Doha has, over the past years, been recognized as one of the group&#8217;s most important communication channels with the international community and has played a central role in political dialogues. Qatar has also acted as a mediator in various Afghanistan-related processes in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>So far, official Qatari government representatives have not publicly commented on this issue, and no further details have been released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban officials deny reports that Qatar requested the closure of their political office in Doha, confirming it remains active amid widespread media claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8528","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\/8528","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=8528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}