{"id":20595,"date":"2026-04-28T03:13:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T03:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=20595"},"modified":"2026-04-28T03:13:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T03:13:05","slug":"khalilzad-condemns-pakistani-shelling-in-kunar-calls-for-strongest-possible-international-condemnation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/04\/28\/khalilzad-condemns-pakistani-shelling-in-kunar-calls-for-strongest-possible-international-condemnation\/","title":{"rendered":"Khalilzad condemns Pakistani shelling in Kunar, calls for strongest possible international condemnation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: Zalmay Khalilzad, former U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, has condemned the recent artillery attacks by Pakistan on civilians in Kunar province, describing them as \u201cbrutal\u201d and calling for the strongest possible international condemnation.<br>In a post on social media, Khalilzad said Pakistan has a prior record of targeting civilian sites, including an alleged attack on a hospital in Kabul.<br>He added that the latest strikes on civilian targets in Kunar undermine Islamabad\u2019s efforts to present itself as a mediator in ongoing tensions between the United States and Iran.<br>Khalilzad also claimed that a previous hospital attack in Kabul, which reportedly martyred hundreds, was initially denied by Pakistan but later confirmed by international observers.<br>According to the latest figures from local health sources, the death toll from the Kunar attacks has risen to eight, with at least 81 others injured, most of them civilians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Zalmay Khalilzad, former U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, has condemned the recent artillery attacks by Pakistan on civilians in Kunar province, describing them as \u201cbrutal\u201d and calling for the strongest possible international condemnation.In a post on social media, Khalilzad said Pakistan has a prior record of targeting civilian sites, including an alleged attack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20596,"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\/20595"}],"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=20595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20597,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20595\/revisions\/20597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}