Amir Khan Muttaqi, the Taliban\u2019s foreign minister, said during a meeting with representatives of countries participating in the \u201cInternational Traditional Wrestling Festival\u201d that sports can help expand the group\u2019s relations with regional countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He described cultural ties between Afghanistan and these countries as \u201chistoric.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Muttaqi also claimed that traditional sports in Afghanistan have developed since the Taliban returned to power. He added that sports can serve as a platform to strengthen diplomatic engagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The festival was held over three days in Kabul, with 60 athletes participating from Iran, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, and T\u00fcrkiye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some analysts believe that amid ongoing restrictions and a lack of international recognition, the Taliban\u2019s efforts to use sports as a tool of engagement cannot mask what they describe as the group\u2019s \u201crepressive and isolationist\u201d nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Amir Khan Muttaqi, the Taliban\u2019s foreign minister, said during a meeting with representatives of countries participating in the \u201cInternational Traditional Wrestling Festival\u201d that sports can help expand the group\u2019s relations with regional countries. He described cultural ties between Afghanistan and these countries as \u201chistoric.\u201d Muttaqi also claimed that traditional sports in Afghanistan have developed since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":39578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[7623,8605,7937,8137,8604,8603,7599,8479,7983,8606,8602,2335,5719,5706],"class_list":["post-39577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","tag-afghanistan-2","tag-athletes","tag-diplomatic","tag-engagement","tag-historic","tag-international-traditional-wrestling-festival","tag-muttaqi-2","tag-regional-countries","tag-representatives","tag-repressive-and-isolationist","tag-sport","tag-deeyar","tag-deeyar-television","tag-deeyar-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39580,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39577\/revisions\/39580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}