{"id":6591,"date":"2025-10-31T18:47:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T13:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/?p=6591"},"modified":"2025-10-31T18:47:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T13:47:58","slug":"pakistan-afghanistan-relations-can-only-improve-if-ttps-patronage-ends-khawaja-asif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/2025\/10\/31\/pakistan-afghanistan-relations-can-only-improve-if-ttps-patronage-ends-khawaja-asif","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan-Afghanistan relations can only improve if TTP&#8217;s patronage ends: Khawaja Asif"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"text-token-text-primary w-full focus:outline-none [--shadow-height:45px] has-data-writing-block:pointer-events-none has-data-writing-block:-mt-(--shadow-height) has-data-writing-block:pt-(--shadow-height) [&amp;:has([data-writing-block])&gt;*]:pointer-events-auto [content-visibility:auto] supports-[content-visibility:auto]:[contain-intrinsic-size:auto_100lvh] scroll-mt-[calc(var(--header-height)+min(200px,max(70px,20svh)))]\" dir=\"auto\" tabindex=\"-1\" data-turn-id=\"request-WEB:94f541fb-da49-446f-8caf-b63bf84d00af-8\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-18\" data-scroll-anchor=\"true\" data-turn=\"assistant\">\n<div class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto pb-10 [--thread-content-margin:--spacing(4)] thread-sm:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(6)] thread-lg:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(16)] px-(--thread-content-margin)\">\n<div class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] thread-lg:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col grow\">\n<div class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-1\" dir=\"auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"37af9357-a00e-42d8-ba24-8a04891bded3\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-5\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden first:pt-[1px]\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert w-full break-words light markdown-new-styling\">\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"230\"><strong data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"14\">Islamabad:<\/strong> Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has stated that if Afghanistan does not stop its support for the banned Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the relationship between Pakistan and Afghanistan will never return to normal.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"232\" data-end=\"539\">Speaking to the media, Khawaja Asif pointed out that Afghanistan continues to violate Pakistan&#8217;s borders, and Pakistan is taking strong measures to safeguard its security.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"232\" data-end=\"539\">He also made it clear that despite investing in Afghanistan over the past 40 years, Pakistan has seen no benefits from these efforts.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"541\" data-end=\"751\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Khawaja Asif further added that the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government is gradually becoming isolated and emphasized that the country cannot be run solely under the leadership of Imran Khan (referred to as &#8220;Niazi&#8221;).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"z-0 flex min-h-[46px] justify-start\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"pointer-events-none h-px w-px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-edge=\"true\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has stated that if Afghanistan does not stop its support for the banned Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the relationship between Pakistan and Afghanistan will never return to normal. Speaking to the media, Khawaja Asif pointed out that Afghanistan continues to violate Pakistan&#8217;s borders, and Pakistan is taking strong measures to safeguard &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3525,2516,160,3892,3891,2668,2294],"class_list":["post-6591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-afghanistan","tag-defence-minister-khawaja-asif","tag-headline","tag-khawaja-asif","tag-khyber-pakhtunkhwa-government","tag-tehrik-i-taliban-pakistan-ttp","tag-youdigital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6593,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6591\/revisions\/6593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}