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Helping Afghanistan

Delhi Declaration inadvertently highlights geopolitical weaknesses

Ajit Doval, BRICS
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Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, attends the seventh meeting of BRICS senior representatives on security issues held at the Diaoyutai state guesthouse near front back to camera in Beijing, China.

Business Standard Editorial Comment
The Delhi Regional Security Dialogue on Afghanistan, chaired by India’s National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, and attended by the security chiefs of Russia, Iran, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, may have been a sincere effort to address the humanitarian and security problems implicit in the return of the Taliban. But the impact of the Delhi Declaration has been rendered moot in the absence of representatives from the most influential players in the region, China and its “client state” and Taliban’s chief sponsor, Pakistan, and Afghanistan itself, plus Russia’s equivocal approach.

This is more so when Pakistan hosted a “Troika-plus” meet