{"id":6061,"date":"2023-07-19T11:53:10","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T06:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=6061"},"modified":"2023-07-19T12:04:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T07:04:05","slug":"us-asks-taliban-to-ensure-afghan-soil-not-used-as-terrorists-safe-haven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/security\/us-asks-taliban-to-ensure-afghan-soil-not-used-as-terrorists-safe-haven\/","title":{"rendered":"US asks Taliban to ensure Afghan soil not used as terrorists\u2019 safe haven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON: The United States has reinforced Pakistan\u2019s call on the Taliban to prevent Afghanistan\u2019s soil from being used as a \u201csafe haven\u201d for terrorist attacks, amid a spike in such strikes across the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI will say we have made very clear that we believe the Taliban has the responsibility to prevent \u2013 Afghanistan from being used as a safe haven for launching terrorist attacks,\u201d State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller said in response to a question at his daily press briefing on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The spokesperson was responding to a question from a Pakistani journalist about the Corps Commanders\u2019 conference warning to the Taliban against providing safe havens to Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a UN-designated terrorist group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An ISPR statement issued after the meeting in Rawalpindi said, \u201cThe sanctuaries and liberty of action available to the terrorists of proscribed TTP and other groups of that ilk in a neighboring country and availability of latest weapons to the terrorists were noted as major reasons impacting the security of Pakistan.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: The United States has reinforced Pakistan\u2019s call on the Taliban to prevent Afghanistan\u2019s soil from being used as a \u201csafe haven\u201d for terrorist attacks, amid a spike in such strikes across the country. \u201cI will say we have made very clear that we believe the Taliban has the responsibility to prevent \u2013 Afghanistan from [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":6062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,80,396,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-asia","category-latest","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}