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This appears to be an expression of avoidable over-enthusiasm. Thus, this is a wide forum, strongly regional in character.For about a decade, the standard line, ritualistically stated by all concerned, is that the conciliation talks with the Taliban should be "Afghan-owned and Afghan-led". Even if the Russia-initiated talks lead nowhere, India would have abandoned its earlier formulaic stance on the Taliban and shown its willingness to engage with the Afghan armed insurgent outfit. New Delhi has rightly been careful to stitch its mast to the Afghan sail.India announced on Thursday that it sought not just an Afghan-owned and Afghan-led peace process (the traditional formulation), but also one that was "Afghan-controlled".It breaks the mould — which was in the shape of the proposition that we should have nothing to do with the Taliban, in part because they are deemed to be captive playthings of Pakistan, Islamabad’s agents practically, and also because they are seen as a terrorist outfit indistinguishable from, say, the Lashkar-e-Tayyeba. Nor was India philosophically inclined to be in on such a venture. India would have stuck out like a sore thumb, and would not have done justice to the immense, high-value political goodwill it enjoys across Afghanistan.This is expected to be a complex, drawn out political process, and being at the Moscow conversation will give New Delhi a first-hand feel of how the Taliban seek to proceed and how their approach is received by Kabul. This departure is a positive step.India sending two eminent non-officials — former senior diplomats Amar Sinha, a recently retired ambassador to Kabul, and T.But in the Moscow talks, Russia has invited, besides the US and Pakistan, all of Afghanistan’s neighbours — Iran, China, the Central Asian Republics, as well as India.

Herein lies a message of solidarity and identification with the government of Afghanistan. In reality, so far, it has been Pakistan-owned and US-led.C.. Raghavan, until not long ago our pet mold Manufacturers high commissioner in Islamabad — to participate in the Moscow Format talks with Taliban representatives on Friday has more than exploratory value. India skipped participating in the first Moscow Format interaction in April 2017 because Kabul had skipped it (possibly under US pressure). There was no question of India being invited to such a table. Since Kabul sent a delegation of its High Peace Council, and not of the government direct, India too did not send an official delegation. Not accepting the invitation was unthinkable.A.It is not unlikely that in the foreseeable future, whether the Americans eventually depart Afghanistan or not (and it is unlikely they will), the Taliban could make a negotiated re-entry into the governing system of Afghanistan, possibly on a power-sharing basis