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India Being Kept out of Afghan-Taliban Peace Talks is a Return to Pre-9/11 Geopolitics

Arun K. Singh
United States’ special envoy for Afghan Reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad’s engagement with India in the effort at bringing peace to the war-torn nation by holding talks with the Taliban has been sporadic, almost reluctant, and clearly no

United States’ special envoy for Afghan Reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad’s engagement with India in the effort at bringing peace to the war-torn nation by holding talks with the Taliban has been sporadic, almost reluctant, and clearly not to India’s satisfaction.

Since March 25, Khalilzad has visited several countries — the United Kingdom, the European Union, Uzbekistan, Jordan and Qatar and Pakistan — that he feels have a stake in or could reinforce his efforts at reconciliation. But for some reason, India has not figured so far in his latest hectic itinerary.