{"id":8764,"date":"2026-03-14T09:45:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T09:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/03\/14\/abdulsalam-zaeef-war-harm-pakistan-afghanistan-conflict\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T09:45:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T09:45:21","slug":"abdulsalam-zaeef-war-harm-pakistan-afghanistan-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/03\/14\/abdulsalam-zaeef-war-harm-pakistan-afghanistan-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Afghan Ambassador Warns Continued Conflict Will Harm Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maulvi Abdulsalam Zaeef, former Afghan Ambassador to Islamabad, has warned that ongoing tensions and conflict with Afghanistan will be detrimental to Pakistan. He stated that Afghanistan&#8217;s reciprocal responses indicate that the continuation of the war could cause serious damage to the Pakistani side.<\/p>\n<p>In a message on his X (formerly Twitter) page, Mr. Zaeef wrote that Pakistan should have understood by now that the ongoing situation will result in undesirable consequences. According to him, if tensions persist, the &#8220;flames of fire&#8221; will gradually spread to Pakistan\u2019s safe and peaceful areas as well.<\/p>\n<p>The former diplomat added that potential losses for Pakistan in this process would be several times greater than the benefits, which he referred to as the &#8220;American project.&#8221; He also emphasized that even efforts to appease &#8220;Biden&#8221; will not achieve the country&#8217;s objectives.<\/p>\n<p>These remarks come as Afghanistan-Pakistan relations have been marked by ups and downs in recent years, with both sides accusing each other of various insecurities\u2014 a situation that has heightened concerns about escalating tensions in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Afghan ambassador Abdulsalam Zaeef warns that prolonged conflict with Afghanistan will cause serious harm to Pakistan and escalate regional tensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8764","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\/8764","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=8764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}