External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday said that India was concerned at the “direction of events” in Afghanistan, hours after the Taliban claimed that it controlled around 85% of the country’s territory, reported The Hindu.
At a joint press conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow, Jaishankar said that usually when there is a volatile situation in a country, the citizens of the place are left to work it out. “But Afghanistan is a very different case because for more than 30 years there have been international conferences, there have been groups, and formats to discuss how to stabilise and bring peace to Afghanistan, because it has proven implications for regional security and stability,” he added.
Jaishankar added that there was a “legitimacy aspect” to whoever gets to govern Afghanistan.
At the briefing, Lavrov confirmed that the Taliban has taken over border crossings with Iran and Tajikistan after removing Afghan military…