{
  "id": 12159787,
  "title": "Russia courts the Taliban without dropping Pakistan",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/russia-courts-the-taliban-without-dropping-pakistan",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-05T13:07:34.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Asia Times",
    "slug": "asia-times",
    "url": "https://asiatimes.com/2026/10/russia-courts-the-taliban-without-dropping-pakistan/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "I have watched Pakistan-Afghanistan relations long enough to distrust easy headlines, and last week’s news produced a few of them. At the Center-2026 (Tsentr-2026) war games in Russia’s Chelyabinsk region, Taliban officers stood among the foreign observers. Reports say it was the first time Moscow had invited a Taliban military delegation since the movement returned […] The post Russia courts the…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}