{"id":18522,"date":"2026-02-10T03:55:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T03:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=18522"},"modified":"2026-02-10T03:55:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T03:55:31","slug":"minister-asif-says-islamabads-intervention-in-afghanistans-past-wars-was-a-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/02\/10\/minister-asif-says-islamabads-intervention-in-afghanistans-past-wars-was-a-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Asif says Islamabad&#8217;s intervention in Afghanistan&#8217;s past wars was a &#8220;mistake&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: Khawaja Asif, the Defense Minister of Pakistan, has recently admitted that his country&#8217;s involvement in Afghanistan&#8217;s past wars was a &#8220;mistake&#8221; and has had unfortunate consequences for Islamabad.<br>The Pakistani newspaper Dawn reported this morning, that during a parliamentary session, he stated that two former military &#8220;dictators&#8221; of Pakistan joined the war in Afghanistan not for Islam, but to please a superpower. He added, &#8220;We have denied our history and have not accepted our mistakes. Terrorism is a reflection of the errors committed by dictators in the past.&#8221;<br>Asif pointed out that while Kabul and Islamabad may have agreed in the past, that consensus no longer exists.<br>Khawaja Asif expressed concern about the lack of national unity in Pakistan in condemning &#8220;terrorist acts,&#8221; noting that religious hatred is currently being fueled under a &#8220;global conspiracy.&#8221;<br>The Defense Minister acknowledged the misguided policies of his country regarding Afghanistan, while the Islamic Emirate has repeatedly called on Islamabad to reconsider its policies toward Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Khawaja Asif, the Defense Minister of Pakistan, has recently admitted that his country&#8217;s involvement in Afghanistan&#8217;s past wars was a &#8220;mistake&#8221; and has had unfortunate consequences for Islamabad.The Pakistani newspaper Dawn reported this morning, that during a parliamentary session, he stated that two former military &#8220;dictators&#8221; of Pakistan joined the war in Afghanistan not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[85],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18522"}],"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=18522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18524,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18522\/revisions\/18524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}