{"id":20528,"date":"2026-02-22T13:50:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T10:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/mehrnews_en\/11200957800499221790\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T13:50:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T10:20:45","slug":"11200957800499221790","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/mehrnews_en\/11200957800499221790\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan&#8217;s Defense Minister Dismisses Recognition of Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Mehr News Agency, Khawaja Asif, the Defense Minister of Pakistan, firmly rejected the notion of establishing diplomatic relations with what he termed the &#8216;child-killing Zionist regime&#8217; during an interview with France 24. He added that the possibility of reconsidering this stance could arise if Palestinians establish an independent state.When asked whether Pakistan would normalize relations with Israel like some other Muslim countries Asif responded that he does not see this option being considered at all. He emphasized &#8216;Therefore this recognition is something that you know is definitely not on our agenda.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent interview, Pakistan&#8217;s Defense Minister clarified that recognizing Israel is not on the agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-palestine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}