New Delhi: Russia and Pakistan, including among Indian countries have invited NSA meetings in the Afghan situation that has been proposed by India next month.
ToI first reported Saturday that India had proposed its own international conference in Afghanistan and that Pakistan was also among countries that participated was being considered.
China, Iran, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are also said to have been invited to regional conferences that will seek to overcome the humanitarian crisis in a war-hit by a war, along with the security situation and the need for the Taliban to enforce human rights.
NSA Ajit Doval is expected to lead a conference that is being organized by the National Security Council Secretariat.
Taliban though not yet invited to the conference proposed in the second week of November.
While Russia invited the Taliban for Moscow format talks on October 20, where India will also participate, the Indian government is alert to hold them here, given that the government in Kabul has not overcome the demands of the international community for inclusiveness and to enforce human rights, including women, including women, Children and minorities.
Russian President Vladimir Putin was quoted as saying on Friday that the temporary government formed by the Taliban “unfortunately did not reflect the entire spectrum of Afghanistan society”.
It will also be interesting to see what the role of Pakistan plays at the conference, or if Pakistan NSA, Moeed Yusuf, even chooses to participate physically at the conference.
Although by maintaining that Pakistan has not yet controlled Indian-oriented terror groups such as Let and Jem, India has dropped enough instructions to suggest that it did not refuse to work with Islamabad if the latter was truly intention to examine cross-border terrorism.
India’s decision to send three senior officials to Pakistan for SCO anti-terror exercises is a good case.
Visit by Yusuf, if that happens, it will be very followed too because it will be the first high-level visit by both sides since it-Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif’s foreign advisory, Sartaj Aziz’s Trip to Amritsar in 2016 for Heart of Asia Conference.
Yusuf, in fact, also among NSA was invited to a conference in Afghanistan that India was proposed in May this year.
The meeting could not occur because the second wave of Covid-19 was deadly in Delhi.
While emphasizing the need for the Taliban to ensure the Afghanistan region is not used to target other people or for protected terrorists, India will also look for unrestriated access to humanitarian assistance for Afghanistan at the conference.
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