Taliban at Afghan deal table, Delhi signals shift, attends Doha meeting

Written by Shubhajit Roy
| New Delhi |

Updated: September 13, 2020 8:42:18 am





External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar joined the ceremony via video link while South Block sent a senior official to Doha to attend the meeting.

Signalling a carefully calibrated shift in its position on engaging with the Taliban, India participated Saturday in the commencement ceremony of intra-Afghan talks between the Afghanistan government and the Taliban in Qatar’s capital Doha.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar joined the ceremony via video link while South Block sent a senior official to Doha to attend the meeting.

Jaishankar told the gathering that the peace process must be “Afghan-led, Afghan-owned and…

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