{"id":26759,"date":"2026-11-03T04:46:24","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T04:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=26759"},"modified":"2026-11-03T04:46:24","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T04:46:24","slug":"khalilzad-afghanistan-existed-as-a-state-centuries-before-pakistans-creation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/11\/03\/khalilzad-afghanistan-existed-as-a-state-centuries-before-pakistans-creation\/","title":{"rendered":"Khalilzad: Afghanistan existed as a state centuries before Pakistan\u2019s creation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: Zalmay Khalilzad, former U.S. special representative for Afghanistan, has said Afghanistan existed as a state centuries before Pakistan was established, responding to recent remarks by Pakistani military spokesman Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khalilzad rejected Chaudhry\u2019s claim that Afghanistan is not a state but is instead governed by a non-state group, saying the assertion was incorrect under international law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also urged Pakistani officials to change what he described as their \u201cthreatening and failed\u201d policy toward Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khalilzad said Afghanistan and Pakistan need each other and should make serious efforts to improve bilateral relations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Zalmay Khalilzad, former U.S. special representative for Afghanistan, has said Afghanistan existed as a state centuries before Pakistan was established, responding to recent remarks by Pakistani military spokesman Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry. Khalilzad rejected Chaudhry\u2019s claim that Afghanistan is not a state but is instead governed by a non-state group, saying the assertion was incorrect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26760,"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\/26759"}],"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=26759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26761,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26759\/revisions\/26761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}