{"id":14971,"date":"2025-09-20T03:52:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T03:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=14971"},"modified":"2025-09-20T03:52:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T03:52:18","slug":"zalmay-khalilzad-emphasizes-for-immediate-removal-of-obstacles-in-u-s-afghanistan-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2025\/09\/20\/zalmay-khalilzad-emphasizes-for-immediate-removal-of-obstacles-in-u-s-afghanistan-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"Zalmay Khalilzad emphasizes for immediate removal of obstacles in U.S.-Afghanistan relations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: Zalmay Khalilzad, the former U.S. envoy for peace in Afghanistan, recently stressed the need for immediate removal of obstacles in U.S.-Afghanistan relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a post on his X account on Friday night, Khalilzad identified the immediate barriers in U.S. relations with Afghanistan as being related to prisoners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that both Kabul and Washington would benefit from strengthening their ties and removing obstacles in their relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He described the removal of barriers to relations between the two countries as &#8220;essential.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khalilzad stated, &#8220;For the U.S., a clear and important area is the fight against terrorism. Afghans also have their specific reasons for seeking much better relations, including the threats and challenges posed by their neighbors.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, Zaker Jalali, a senior official of the Islamic Emirate at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, mentioned that the U.S. could maintain political and economic relations with Afghanistan without a military presence&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Zalmay Khalilzad, the former U.S. envoy for peace in Afghanistan, recently stressed the need for immediate removal of obstacles in U.S.-Afghanistan relations. In a post on his X account on Friday night, Khalilzad identified the immediate barriers in U.S. relations with Afghanistan as being related to prisoners. He added that both Kabul and Washington [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[74],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14971"}],"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=14971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14973,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14971\/revisions\/14973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}