After two days of consultations, diplomats on both sides decided that they would adopt a wait-and-watch posture in light of the Taliban’s assurances that the country would not become a terrorist haven that it was in the lead-up to 9/11.
“We have a wait and see policy. It doesn’t mean you don’t do anything, it means the situation is very fluid on the ground, you have to see how it develops. You have to see that Whether assurances have been given or not. Public is actually maintained on the ground,” India’s Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla told reporters at the conclusion of his nearly a week-long visit to the US during both sides of the United Nations. I also acted, among other things, to put pressure on the new regime. In Kabul and its overlords to ensure a more representative government in Afghanistan.
The remarks also came as the head of Pakistan’s notorious intelligence agency ISI, which promoted the Taliban, arrived in Kabul to oversee the formation of a government, its unelected proxy put together in the two weeks since taking over the country. have not been successful.
While some Taliban critics compared the visit of the ISI’s Honorable Lieutenant General Faiz Hamid to a victorious general boarding the occupied capital, other analysts saw it as an attempt by Pakistan to bring the warring Taliban factions together. Who are now fighting for the loot of power.
Afghanistan’s ousted vice president said, “The Taliban have won no hearts and minds. They have only taken advantage of the faulty policy of a weary US president – not necessarily the United States itself – and shunned Pakistan’s infamous intelligence agency, the ISI. being finely managed by Amarullah Saleh said in a comment published in the Daily Mail.
Accusing the Taliban spokesman, he said, “It is the Pakistanis who are effectively in charge as a colonial power. But this is not going to last as they and their clients are unable to build a functioning economy or create a civil service.” Will not be able.” In Kabul “receives instructions from the Pakistani embassy literally every hour.”
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In the US, the Indian delegation had to come to terms with a Biden presidency that had dramatically changed Washington’s global outlook, deciding that he would stop being the world’s policeman and stop doing nation-building missions. Instead, Washington will focus its energies on maintaining US primacy over China and Russia, allowing them a free run in Afghanistan if they choose to do so.
Some of these issues will figure in the upcoming 2+2 dialogue between the two countries in November. Both sides are also exploring the possibility of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Washington. United Nations in September.
In fact, while some in Pakistan are rejoicing over a Beijing-Islamabad victory in Afghanistan, apparently at the expense of Washington and New Delhi, some of Pakistan’s own analysts are warning that Islamabad may be open to supporting extremists in Afghanistan. The tornado will bite. .
“ISI’s public ownership of the tainted Taliban militia’s occupation of Afghanistan will hardly favor Pakistan over the Afghans. It will further elevate the Taliban as a proxy and strengthen the neoliberal ‘Afpak’. It will attract an exit from the audacity.” Will also ensure to do it,” former Pakistan Senator Afrasiab Khattak tweeted after the ISI chief’s visit to Kabul.
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