{"id":23276,"date":"2026-10-24T21:22:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T21:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=23276"},"modified":"2026-10-24T21:22:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T21:22:52","slug":"why-is-pakistan-at-war-with-the-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=23276","title":{"rendered":"Why is Pakistan at war with the Taliban?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pakistan supported the Taliban during its 20 year fight with the US and international partners, and then after the Taliban won, the Taliban and Pakistan went to war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why is Pakistan at war with the Taliban?\u00a0| Meanwhile in Asia\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eGgNFNRItXM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan supported the Taliban during its 20 year fight with the US and international partners, and then after the Taliban won, the Taliban and Pakistan went to war. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eGgNFNRItXM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[468,552,272,355,83,314,1743,1894,1049,158],"class_list":["post-23276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-central-asia","tag-conflict","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-india","tag-international-relations","tag-pakistan","tag-south-asia","tag-taliban","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23277,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23276\/revisions\/23277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}