New York, Sep 11 On the anniversary of the 9/11 dread assaults, India on Wednesday called on the international community to continue its support for Afghanistan and satisfy the responsibilities made to its people and the security forces as they continue to battle terrorism.
Syed Akbaruddin, India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, said insurgent groups like the Taliban and the Haqqani Network, continue to find safe havens and support beyond Afghanistan’s borders, in an indirect reference to Pakistan where such groups continue to find patronage.
The remarks from the Indian envoy to the UN came only two days after the United States announced that the peace converses with the Taliban are “dead”. President Donald Trump declared that the secret talks have been cancelled and that he would ramp the war back up.
“They are dead. To the extent I am concerned, they are dead,” Trump stated, signalling an end to the US offer to arrive at a concurrence with the Taliban and haul US troops out of the war-torn nation. US troops have been in Afghanistan since 2001 after the September 11 assaults.
Alluding to the peace talks, Indian envoy Akbaruddin stated: “It is the Afghan people who will actualize and bear the results of any understandings landed at. Subsequently, results which have established authenticity and political order and are landed at in a comprehensive and law based way alone can guarantee security. We, subsequently, support (the UN) Secretary General’s call for direct talks.”
“The support and safe havens enjoyed from beyond Afghanistan’s borders by groups, for example, Taliban, Haqqani Network, Da’esh (ISIS), just as Al-Qaeda and its prohibited subsidiaries, including Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed, must be addressed,” the Indian aenvoy stated further.
Trump decided to cancel the peace talk with Taliban following the killing of a US soldier in a huge blast in Kabul last week.
As per the top-secret plan, Taliban leaders were to be flown to the Camp David presidential office outside Washington for direct talks. In any case, the Kabul bomb impact made a huge difference and Trump reported that the military invasion had returned to its fiercest level.
“Over the last four days, we have been hitting our Enemy harder than at any time in the last ten years!” the US president tweeted.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo earlier said “we’ve killed over a thousand Taliban in just the last 10 days.”
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