KABUL – Irked India after being left out of Afghanistan endgame respondsover latest development.
India said that any peace process should have full consent of the Afghangovernment and the people.
Addressing a weekly briefing, Raveesh Kumar, a spokesman for India’sMinistry of External Affairs, said India is closely following thedevelopments including the talks between Taliban and the US.
“We believe that all sections of the Afghan society including thelegitimately elected government should be part of this process,” he said.
The US chief negotiator Zalmay Khalilzad and key members of the Talibanheld nine rounds of talks in Qatar and the UAE in almost a year. The twosides were about to sign a peace deal when the US president called off thenegotiations, citing Taliban’s deadly attack in Kabul which left 13 people,including a US soldier, dead and many others wounded.
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This decision by Mr. Trump, according to analysts, opened the way for theAfghan presidential election scheduled for September 28.
Mr. Kumar said India has supported the Afghan election.
