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The Biden administration has begun an overhaul of America’s Afghanistan strategy and it finally wants India at the table. In a leaked letter to Afghan president Ashraf Ghani, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken outlined a series of steps to jumpstart the stalled peace process. One of them was a UN-backed conference of regional powers and stakeholders.
Afghanistan has a troubled history with its neighbors, in a complex web of competing interests and proxy powers. But increasingly India is a new focus for diplomatic efforts to broker a lasting peace. The US has made clear that it welcomes New Delhi’s engagement.
India has fostered close ties to the Afghan government in recent years, in the form of billions of dollars in aid and development. Last month, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi gave his support to a peace process that is “led, owned and controlled by Afghanistan.”
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