{"id":14859,"date":"2025-09-15T05:15:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T05:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=14859"},"modified":"2025-09-15T05:38:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T05:38:21","slug":"khalilzad-ongoing-tensions-between-pakistan-and-ttp-do-not-have-a-military-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2025\/09\/15\/khalilzad-ongoing-tensions-between-pakistan-and-ttp-do-not-have-a-military-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Khalilzad: Ongoing tensions between Pakistan and TTP do not have a military solution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: Following deadly clashes in the past two days between Pakistani military forces and Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Zalmay Khalilzad, the former U.S. envoy for Afghan peace, stated that ongoing tensions do not have a military solution.<br>Khalilzad made the remarks on Sunday night, on his X account emphasizing that it is time for Islamabad to adopt a political approach toward the TTP, and that Kabul should assist Pakistan in this effort.<br>According to Khalilzad, if Pakistan believes that confronting the TTP can be resolved through military means, it is &#8220;deeply mistaken.&#8221; He asserted that the Pakistani government has no credible military strategy for dealing with the TTP.<br>He noted that the Pakistani ruling establishment had previously advised the United States and the Afghan government to engage in negotiations with the Afghan Taliban to reach a political solution. Now, he argues, it is time for Pakistan to do the same.<br>This comes amidst Khalilzad&#8217;s previous criticisms of Pakistan&#8217;s policies and internal issues, where he has advised the country to resolve its own matters rather than focusing on external criticisms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Following deadly clashes in the past two days between Pakistani military forces and Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Zalmay Khalilzad, the former U.S. envoy for Afghan peace, stated that ongoing tensions do not have a military solution.Khalilzad made the remarks on Sunday night, on his X account emphasizing that it is time for Islamabad to adopt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14859"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14869,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14859\/revisions\/14869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}