{"id":1125,"date":"2026-05-14T09:50:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2026-05-14T09:50:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:50:06","slug":"russia-says-its-establishing-full-partnership-with-afghan-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=1125","title":{"rendered":"Russia says it&#8217;s establishing &#8216;full partnership&#8217; with Afghan Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MOSCOW: Russia is establishing a \u201cfull-fledged partnership\u201d with Afghanistan\u2019s ruling Taliban and is encouraging other countries in the region to expand cooperation with Kabul, a senior Russian security official was quoted on Thursday as saying.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Russia last year became the first country to formally recognise the Taliban government that seized power in August 2021 as U.S.-led forces staged a chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan after 20 years of war.<\/p>\n<p><em>Interfax<\/em> news agency quoted Russian official Sergei Shoigu as saying cooperation with Kabul was important for the security and development of the region.<\/p>\n<p>Shoigu, who is secretary of Russia\u2019s Security Council, said Moscow was building a \u201cpragmatic dialogue\u201d with the Taliban that included security, trade, culture and humanitarian support.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brecorder.com\/news\/40420836\/eu-to-invite-taliban-officials-to-brussels-to-hold-migration-talks\"><strong>EU to invite Taliban officials to Brussels to hold migration talks<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He was speaking at a meeting with his counterparts from the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), a 10-member grouping that includes China, India, Iran, Pakistan and a number of ex-Soviet states.<\/p>\n<p>The SCO should revive its contact group with Afghanistan, Shoigu added.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban was outlawed by Russia as a terrorist movement in 2003, but the ban was lifted in April 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW: Russia is establishing a \u201cfull-fledged partnership\u201d with Afghanistan\u2019s ruling Taliban and is encouraging other countries in the region to expand cooperation with Kabul, a senior Russian security official was quoted on Thursday as saying. Russia last year became the first country to formally recognise the Taliban government that seized power in August 2021 as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}