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No confirmation about this till now. Then again Mullah Omar's death was confirmed 3 years later. It seems the Taliban leadership & their handlers - the ISI aren't on the same page. Will be very interesting to see how the situation unfolds if this bit of news is true for as Iran pointed out & something which India concurs with - The Taliban may be inimical to both India & Iran on account of it's DNA but is an absolute existential threat to Paxtan.
Why isn't India asking for his extradition? After all we've lost a citizen in this attack.
 
Everyone is hesitant to provide any high tech equipment to Afghans as they are ultimately going to end up with Taliban. Combat there is difficult due to favorable conditions for guerrilla warfare, sadly no amount of high tech equipment is going to change that, US has used everything at their disposal in past 17 years and it yielded nothing.
Hi, These days mobile phones have fingerprint locks. Why can't they install more sophisticated version of this on only high end weapons and give it to ANA, I think it will make a hell lot of difference.
 
It’s ironic that SOME PEOPLE go to a foreign country to slaughter their religious enemies while their native countries (India and Bangla) have more of these perceived enemies than the Afghanistan.
I mean it feels chilling to even think what could happen in case there is total law and order breakdown situation in these countries? A Delhi like mob rampage ? Godhra like Death by fire or a Mumbai like chain of Blasts?
It’s very difficult to ascertain which one method is more dignified.
Sometimes I feel that we are sitting ducks waiting for our time.

If Hindustan falls, we will be annihilated by our ideological enemies. like what happened to Buddhists in Afghanistan and Sindh and Parsies in Persia.
we arebeing portrayed as Neonazies just for defending ourselves. I know a lot of those people don’t support such acts but what is more worrisome is that it is mandated by the BOOK they swear to follow word by word.
@vstol Jockey

PS: Don’t know if I’m getting Islomophobic or whatever but sometimes I just feel like that.
 
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Get involved in internal political processs in Afghanistan, US urges India

Indrani Bagchi | TNN | Updated: May 8, 2020, 21:43 IST


The US asked India to get involved in the internal political process in Afghanistan, including looking at “proposals for different formulations that would include separate strands in Afghanistan”, even the Taliban.

Sources said this formed the core of the discussions between US special envoy, Zalmay Khalilzad and foreign minister S. Jaishankar NSA Ajit Doval and Foreign Secretary Harsh Shringla in Delhi on Thursday.

The visit had a “level of urgency” — Khalilzad could have come later, but he chose to come all the way for a couple of hours, they said. The urgency comes from a perfect storm including a fraying peace deal, a political impasse within the Afghan government, increasing violence by the Taliban, and all in a time of a pandemic, destabilising Afghanistan further.

Sources said the US described India as a “major actor” with an important role in ensuring Afghanistan’s peace and development. “We need to remain part of the process if we want to contribute effectively to the process,” they said.

This would be the first time India has acknowledged that it should be part of the larger peace process inside Afghanistan. India has been squeamish about being part of a peace process which includes the Taliban as well as Pakistan in key roles, not wanting to give legitimacy to a terror group that continues to play to the Pakistani tune.

In their conversations, sources said the US wanted India to continue playing a “constructive role” in bringing about peace internally. By supporting the elected government in Kabul, India reckons it has built an equity that would have been elusive if India had joined the bandwagon early to reach out to the Taliban. At this point, India has more influence with the Ghani government than almost any other country, comparable with the US.

The attack on Sikh and Hindu minorities in Afghanistan in recent weeks has also sharpened India’s attention, particularly the fact that the attack on the Kabul gurdwara which killed 25 people was carried out by an LeT-Haqqani network combine, working closely with the ISKP — blowing to pieces Pakistan’s contention that the ISKP and Taliban are opposed to each other. The Haqqani network is a key component of the Afghan Taliban, with Sirajuddin Haqqani as the deputy head of Taliban.

Last week Khalilzad and Jaishankar held a phone conversation which Khalilzad described “I reached out to Indian External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar yesterday to discuss the latest on the Afghan peace process. We talked about the urgency of resolving the internal political crisis and the importance of Afghan leaders forming an inclusive government.”

Meanwhile, government sources said India was transporting 75000 tons of wheat via Iran’s Chahbahar port to Afghanistan — “5000 tons were shipped last month and 10000 tons went on Thursday this week,” they said. India is also trying to send tea and sugar to Afghanistan.

 
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