Breaking: Trump calls Modi and supports more Indian involvement in Afghanistan

[hussain0216]

OMG

Injuns

 

[Path-Finder]

The excitement in the indians. oh my. Changes nothing on the ground but Trump just blew a bit of smoke up the arse.

 

[Mighty Lion]

lol good luck .

Lol thanks

 

[graphican]

Everyone is very eager to discuss Afghanistan issues with India as they know is India is a good friend of Afghanistan.


India's importance can be gauged by:

1)Trump called Modi today to discuss Afghanistan.

2)Afghan NSA visited India this week for talks. Afghan defence minister Asadullah Khalid will visit next month.

3)US special envoy Afghanistan Zalmay Kahlilzad will visit India sometime later this month. US Principal Assistam Secretary for South & Central Asia Alice G. Wells will follow him for an India visit in February.

4)Iranian foreign minister coming to India this week to discuss Afghanistan and strategic Chabahar port.

5)Russian special envoy for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov visited India 2 weeks back for Afghan talks. Putin and Modi also discussed Afghanistan yesterday.


We already told US no military involvement as we only join UN peacekeeping missions.

We also told them we have no problem with US reducing it's forces in Afghanistan by 50% as long as they retain the 5000-6000 strong counter terror and spec ops component in Afghanistan.

 

[Taimoor Khan]

Big victory for India.
Indian involvement and activities in Afghanistan to boost Afghan economy and governance will get a Huge boost.

@Path-Finder @PakSword @Taimoor Khan @maximuswarrior @Crystal-Clear @Sully3 @war&peace @hussain0216

Only thing that can be deduced by this that American DANDA is working, and Modi has caved in and is now willing to send men on the ground and we in Pakistan would welcome this, infact waiting for it patiently.

 

[xyxmt]

This is not new, Pakistan is saying for ages that India need to get involved more in Afghanistan by sending troops...please please do it for you Afghan friends, this is what trump is asking for now not you meager few billions

 

[GumNaam]

Yet we have to be sensitive to iran..bullshit

No we don't. Iranians made their bed, now they gotta sleep in it.

 

[GumNaam]

It is Taliban that is desperate for interim admin in Kabul.
Rest of it is your day dreams .

Yeh lay bay chootia parshad, parh lay!

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The two-day meeting starting Wednesday would have been fourth in a series between Taliban and US special envoy.

13 hours ago


The Afghan Taliban have cancelled peace talks with officials from the United States in Qatar this week, following disagreements over the agenda of the meeting, the group confirmed on Tuesday.

The two-day talks were scheduled to begin on Wednesday in capital, Doha. The Taliban had rejected the participation of Afghan government officials in the deliberations.

Taliban have rejected numerous requests from regional powers to allow Afghan officials to take part in the talks, insisting that the US is their main adversary in the 17-year war and that Kabul is a "puppet" regime.

READ MORE
Afghan Taliban officials: 'US agrees to discuss troops pullout'
The Taliban, Afghanistan's largest armed group which was toppled from power by a US-led invasion in 2001, called off their meeting with the US officials in Saudi Arabia this week following Riyadh's insistence on bringing the Western-backed Afghan government to the table.

The talks will be the fourth in a series between Taliban leaders and US special envoy, Zalmay Khalilzad.

"After mutual consultations, we are going to meet US officials in Doha on Wednesday. The meeting will continue for two days - Wednesday and Thursday," said a senior member of the Afghan Taliban on condition of anonymity.

Pakistani and Iranian officials said they were trying to persuade the Taliban to meet Afghan officials.

Another senior Taliban leader confirmed the Qatarmeeting and said no other country would be involved.

At the request of the US, a Taliban office was established in Doha in 2013 to facilitate peace talks.

But the office had to be closed after the Taliban came under pressure for hoisting the same flag at their office that the group used during its rule in Afghanistan.

Subsequently, the then Afghan President Hamid Karzaihalted all peace efforts, saying the Doha office was presenting itself as an unofficial embassy for a government-in-exile.

The flag has since been taken down and the office has remained empty with no official announcements of a possible reopening.

Talks with the Taliban have since been taking place elsewhere in Doha.

US plans to withdraw troops
The war in Afghanistan is America's longest overseas military intervention. It has cost Washington nearly $1 trillion and killed tens of thousands of people.


In 2017, US President Donald Trump increased the number of his country's troops in Afghanistan as part of a new strategy against the Taliban.

There are now about 14,000 US soldiers in the country. The Taliban has previously said the presence of foreign troops was the biggest obstacle to peace in Afghanistan.

Reports last month about Trump's plans to withdraw thousands of troops from Afghanistan triggered uncertainty in Kabul, which depends on the US and other foreign powers for military support and training.

The US embassy in Afghanistan did not immediately respond to a request for comment, said the Reuters news agency.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019...fourth-peace-talks-qatar-190108070441726.html

 

[Mighty Lion]

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Yeh lay bay chootia parshad, parh lay!

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The two-day meeting starting Wednesday would have been fourth in a series between Taliban and US special envoy.

13 hours ago


The Afghan Taliban have cancelled peace talks with officials from the United States in Qatar this week, following disagreements over the agenda of the meeting, the group confirmed on Tuesday.

The two-day talks were scheduled to begin on Wednesday in capital, Doha. The Taliban had rejected the participation of Afghan government officials in the deliberations.

Taliban have rejected numerous requests from regional powers to allow Afghan officials to take part in the talks, insisting that the US is their main adversary in the 17-year war and that Kabul is a "puppet" regime.

READ MORE
Afghan Taliban officials: 'US agrees to discuss troops pullout'
The Taliban, Afghanistan's largest armed group which was toppled from power by a US-led invasion in 2001, called off their meeting with the US officials in Saudi Arabia this week following Riyadh's insistence on bringing the Western-backed Afghan government to the table.

The talks will be the fourth in a series between Taliban leaders and US special envoy, Zalmay Khalilzad.

"After mutual consultations, we are going to meet US officials in Doha on Wednesday. The meeting will continue for two days - Wednesday and Thursday," said a senior member of the Afghan Taliban on condition of anonymity.

Pakistani and Iranian officials said they were trying to persuade the Taliban to meet Afghan officials.

Another senior Taliban leader confirmed the Qatarmeeting and said no other country would be involved.

At the request of the US, a Taliban office was established in Doha in 2013 to facilitate peace talks.

But the office had to be closed after the Taliban came under pressure for hoisting the same flag at their office that the group used during its rule in Afghanistan.

Subsequently, the then Afghan President Hamid Karzaihalted all peace efforts, saying the Doha office was presenting itself as an unofficial embassy for a government-in-exile.

The flag has since been taken down and the office has remained empty with no official announcements of a possible reopening.

Talks with the Taliban have since been taking place elsewhere in Doha.

US plans to withdraw troops
The war in Afghanistan is America's longest overseas military intervention. It has cost Washington nearly $1 trillion and killed tens of thousands of people.


In 2017, US President Donald Trump increased the number of his country's troops in Afghanistan as part of a new strategy against the Taliban.

There are now about 14,000 US soldiers in the country. The Taliban has previously said the presence of foreign troops was the biggest obstacle to peace in Afghanistan.

Reports last month about Trump's plans to withdraw thousands of troops from Afghanistan triggered uncertainty in Kabul, which depends on the US and other foreign powers for military support and training.

The US embassy in Afghanistan did not immediately respond to a request for comment, said the Reuters news agency.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019...fourth-peace-talks-qatar-190108070441726.html

Proves Taliban is rudderless.

 

[GumNaam]

Proves Taliban is rudderless.

all it proves is that you are senseless...