New Delhi: China and Pakistan will be lost when the national security head of seven main regions gathered here on Wednesday for security dialogue in Afghanistan.
Daily events, the first hosted by India, will focus on terrorism and related security challenges and uncertainty that emerged from Afghanistan taken over by the Taliban in August.
Pakistan refused to come because India.
But China fulfills its responses.
Citing his inability to attend because “scheduling problems”, Beijing said that they wanted to involve India bilaterally in Afghanistan.
The Indian government refrained from clubbing two rejections, although the sources said China’s response might be caused by Pakistani sensitivity.
“We are interested in Chinese participation,” said the source.
The meeting will focus on terrorism, in Afghanistan and cross-border: radicalization and extremism growth that might spread from Afghanistan, both by Taliban and Haqqani networks, or IS-K, or only with the power of demonstrations to influence the population of participating countries.
Cross-border movement is another field that is a concern.
A new challenge overlooking this region is a threat that comes from military equipment and weapons left by US forces in Afghanistan.
There is fear that this can be used for terrorism fuel or feeding organized crime networks in the region.
Dialogue, said source, is not new.
The first was held in Iran in 2018 with five countries – India, Russia, Afghanistan, China and Iran.
Pakistan was invited, but refused to join.
Iran held the second in 2019.
There was no invitation sent to Afghanistan – not to the Taliban or even the previous government.
“None of the participating countries raised the invitation problem to the Taliban,” said the source.
The Indian planner takes into account that the biggest “produce” of the meeting will be a general understanding of threats faced by uncertainty in Afghanistan.
“We believe there is a high level of convergence from threats and us,” said the source.
Dialogue is not possible to lead to new security architecture but the Indian side hopes to evolve into one.
China to go through a meeting in Afghanistan organized by India
