{"id":3242,"date":"2026-10-24T18:03:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T13:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3242"},"modified":"2026-10-24T18:03:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T13:03:47","slug":"pakistan-rejects-khalilzads-allegations-of-arming-afghans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3242","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan rejects Khalilzad&#8217;s allegations of arming Afghans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Pakistan has categorically rejected the baseless and misleading allegations by Zalmay Khalilzad, former ambassador of the US to Afghanistan, of arming former Afghans to fight Taliban and their supporters terrorist groups.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting\u2019s Fact Check account said in a post on X that Khalilzad\u2019s sweeping baseless assertions merely recycle speculative narratives as part of his personal agenda to prop up terrorism supporting the Taliban regime.<\/p>\n<p>The information ministry said it is particularly misleading to conflate Pakistan\u2019s legitimate counterterrorism operations against terrorist organisations operating from inside Afghan Taliban regime-controlled areas threatening its citizens with allegations of recruiting Afghan nationals or sponsoring armed groups inside Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  w-full sm:w-full  media--center  media--embed  media--uneven media--tweet\" data-original-src=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FactCheckerMoIB\/status\/2113903408654770488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2113903408654770488%7Ctwgr%5E208674ab9d4b2bd876729f9cb51801d63b1fe05b%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.brecorder.com%2Fnews%2F40445755\">\n<div class=\"media__item  media__item--twitter  \"><span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FactCheckerMoIB\/status\/2113903408654770488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2113903408654770488%7Ctwgr%5E208674ab9d4b2bd876729f9cb51801d63b1fe05b%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.brecorder.com%2Fnews%2F40445755\"><\/a>\n    <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cPakistan remains at the forefront of the fight against terrorism and has made enormous sacrifices in protecting regional peace and security,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>The information ministry emphasised that successive UN monitoring reports have documented the continued presence and activities of terrorist organisations, including TTP and Al-Qaeda, inside Afghanistan. It said Khalilzad\u2019s allegations conveniently divert attention from the Afghan Taliban regime\u2019s responsibility to prevent its territory from being used by Indian sponsored proxies for terrorism against Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry said Khalilzad\u2019s paddling of such unsubstantiated allegations only exposes his skewed, agenda-based views.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan has categorically rejected the baseless and misleading allegations by Zalmay Khalilzad, former ambassador of the US to Afghanistan, of arming former Afghans to fight Taliban and their supporters terrorist groups. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting\u2019s Fact Check account said in a post on X that Khalilzad\u2019s sweeping baseless assertions merely recycle speculative narratives as part of his personal agenda to prop up terrorism supporting the Taliban regime. The information ministry said it is particularly misleading to conflate Pakistan\u2019s legitimate counterterrorism operations against terrorist organisations operating from inside Afghan&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}