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Pakistan has been uncomfortable at New Delhi’s participation at the intra-Afghan talks and has red flagged a role for India in internal meetings with the US, Qatari mediators

The US interlocutor for Afghan-Taliban talks Zalmay Khalilzad is on a short visit to India on Tuesday to hold discussions with external affairs minister S Jaishankar on the intra-Afghan talks that started on Sunday in Doha, six months later than planned due to disagreements over a prisoner swap agreed and the continuing Taliban offensive against high-value targets in Kabul.

Zalmay, the US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, is booked to arrive at Islamabad on Monday to put forth for the Imran Khan government the need to decrease viciousness in Afghanistan if the discussions with the Taliban to end the 19-year-long brutality are to succeed.

The US questioner needs to guarantee that Rawalpindi GHQ makes strides so the Taliban remains on course in the harmony talks. It is generally accepted that the Taliban, on the off chance that it had not been feeling the squeeze, would want to militarily assume control over the nation and transform it into an Islamic Emirate as it had done in 1996.

At the initial function for the discussions on Sunday, the Afghan government, and partners including the US, had required a truce. Abdullah, the top of the harmony cycle for the Afghan government, said the Taliban could offer a truce in return for the arrival of a greater amount of their imprisoned warriors. Be that as it may, the Taliban didn’t specify a ceasefire as they went to the arranging table.

“The principal meeting between the contact gatherings of the two arrangement groups occurred today. In this gathering set of principles between different sides, timetables of up and coming gatherings and pertinent issues were talked about and progress was made,” Ahmad Nader Naderi, an individual from the administration’s arranging group, said on Twitter on Sunday.

Aside from the US, Afghanistan, the Taliban, and Qatar which is facilitating the discussions, the conversations throughout the end of the week were likewise gone to by agents from India, Pakistan, Russia, Germany, Indonesia, Uzbekistan, Norway, and the United Nations.

Individuals acquainted with the issue said this is the first occasion when that India partook in the intra-Afghan talks at the degree of outside issues service with a joint secretary (Pakistan-Afghanistan-Iran) JP Singh driving an appointment to Qatar’s Doha that incorporates Deepak Mittal, the Indian representative to Qatar and a Pakistan-Afghanistan master.

As per negotiators in Doha and New Delhi, Zalmay, in his short four-hour-long outing to India, will share subtleties of the Afghan harmony measure, value India’s helpful part in Kabul for as far back as 20 years.

Pakistan has been profoundly worried about India’s interest in the intra-Afghan talks at Doha yet the US, its different partners, and the Afghan government have been profoundly keen on India’s recreation exertion.

The Afghan government’s 21-part arranging group was driven by Masoom Stanekzai, a previous knowledge boss. The Taliban was driven by Mawlavi Abdul Hakim, the fear gathering’s central equity and a nearby assistant of the gathering’s boss Haibatullah Akhunzada.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who was in Doha for the initial service, said the arrangements would be troublesome. “We will without a doubt experience numerous difficulties in the discussions over the coming days, many months,” Pompeo stated, requiring the warring sides to “take advantage of this chance” to make sure about harmony.

Zalmay Khalilzad told Afghanistan’s TOLO News that there are without a doubt a few people in Afghanistan who favor the current circumstance to harmony with the Taliban while some are endeavoring to keep Washington occupied with war so it could follow through on the cost,

“It isn’t worthy and there is an answer for each issue, and an answer must be found. We are prepared to help if the nation’s advantages start things out and individual interests don’t start things out. I am certain that an answer will be found and we won’t permit individual interests to come first. This is the guarantee of the US to the individuals of Afghanistan,” Khalilzad said.