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No talks with Taliban: India | Government sources have cleraed the air and scotched reports of any kind of dialogue with Taliban and have said that India will only be dealing with the legitimate Government led by President Hamid Karzai. India believes that
Taliban is the "antagonist and not the protagonist" and is also aware about its
collusion with the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba, which is enlarging its role
in Afghanistan and is specifically targeting Indians and Indian interests in the
war torn country. India, which is strongly opposed to the good Taliban bad Taliban
theory from the outset, believes that Taliban and Lashkar are morphed together
and share a common objective to harm Indian interest in Afghanistan , highly placed
sources agree that Lashkar has increased its presence in Afghanistan and it is
sharing information , intelligence and even resources with Taliban and India is
in touch with Afghan authorities to counter the threat. Sources said the situation in Afghanistan needs a lot of tackling, but India is not going to lower its guard and there will be no full stop to its developmental activities,
India 's role as a partner has not diluted, our medical mission scaled down but
there is no full stop. Government sources also Indicated that India is strongly
banking on President Hamid Karzai, who is currently engaged in the process of
reconciliation and reintegration of renegade warlords or the militants and will
soon be holding Loya Jirga. India is convinced that Hamid Karzai is well aware
of the complexities of the situation and is aware about India 's apprehensions
of talking or reconciling with the groups like Haqqanis and Hikmatyar, which are
backed by Pakistan 's covert agency. Commenting on increased role of Pakistan
in the Afghan endgame with strong US backing informed sources said " US has categorically
said that they don't want process of stability to be outsourced to Pakistan. |
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