NEW DELHI: Disclosure of Mullah Baradar, the Taliban chief negotiator in the intra-Afghan peace talks, in a video that the entire Taliban leadership is based in Pakistan and that no decision is made without their advice, has exacerbated India’s concerns about the role of the ISI in the peace process.
the Afghan government He described the development in a statement on Friday as one that posed a serious challenge to the goal of achieving sustainable peace, as the closure of training camps in Pakistan is vital to the peaceful resolution of the problem. Afghanistan situation.
A series of videos had surfaced on Thursday showing visiting Taliban representatives, led by Baradar in Pakistan, revealing the existence of all Taliban leaders in Pakistan and acknowledging their continued activities on Pakistani territory. They were also seen in the videos visiting the training grounds, as confirmed by the Afghan Foreign Ministry on Friday.
While supporting the latest peace process, which involves direct talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban for the first time, India has repeatedly insisted on the need to ensure that there are no ungoverned spaces in the country for terrorist activities. External subjects minister S Jaishankar He said, while expressing support for the intra-Afghan talks in September, that India’s expectation was that Afghanistan’s soil will never be used for any anti-India activity.
Baradar’s comments in Karachi are important to India as they reject the understanding that the ISI no longer enjoys the kind of influence with the Taliban that it once had. Confirms India’s fears about Taliban terrorist machinery continues to operate with impunity from Pakistan and on its links with terrorist groups such as LeT and JeM.
India remains a major player in the war-torn country with its development work worth billions of dollars.
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