New Delhi:Pakistan is set to host a meeting of the special representatives for Afghanistan from the US, China and Russia Thursday. The meeting will take place a day after India chairs the Delhi Regional Security Dialogue, which will see the participation of seven countries’ public security chiefs. Both the meetings will concentrate on Afghanistan.
Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and its National Security Adviser Moeed Yusuf will president the‘Troika Plus’ meeting The US State Department’s Special Representative and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Afghanistan, Thomas West; Russia’s Special Afghanistan Envoy Zamir Kabulov; and China’s Special Envoy for Afghan Affairs Yue Xiaoyong will share in the meeting. West succeeded Zalmay Khalilzad, who was US special envoy for Afghanistan, after the ultimate stepped down in October Taliban’s Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi will represent the interim government of Afghanistan A elderly delegation led by FM Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi will travel to Pakistan on Nov 10. Delegation will bandy enhancing ties, frugality, conveyance, deportees and expanding installations for movement of people and will include ministers and working groups from finance and trade ministries,” Taliban foreign ministry spokesperson Abdul Qahar Balkhi said in a tweet.
Anaamullah Samangani, deputy spokesperson of the Taliban interim government, said Muttaqi’s visit to Pakistan is a follow-up to Qureshi’s visit to Kabul in October In this visit, addresses will be held with different Pakistani officers on expanding ties between the two countries, profitable and conveyance and easing people’s trip in crossings between the two countries,” Samangani was quoted as saying The last Troika Plus meeting was held in Moscow last month, to which India was also invited.
Doval’s one-on-one talks
On Wednesday, for the first time since the Taliban’s preemption of Afghanistan in August, India will host a meeting of the security chiefs of Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan under the frame of the Delhi Regional Security Dialogue. National Security Advisor Ajit Doval will president the meeting Pakistan NSA Moeed Yusuf rejected the assignation to attend this dialogue, while China declined, citing scheduling issues On the dusk of the addresses Tuesday, Doval held one-on-one meetings with his counterparts, Tajikistan’s Security Council Secretary Nasrullo Rahmatjon Mahmudzoda, and Uzbekistan’s Security Council Secretary Victor Makhmudov According to sanctioned sources, in both the meetings, the main focus was Afghanistan.
While Tajikistan mentioned its enterprises on the “ sharp increase in terrorist pitfalls from Afghanistan in recent history”, Uzbekistan’s security chief stressed that the “ legality of any Afghan government within Afghanistan was important before the issue of its transnational recognition”, said a source India noted the issue of unchecked access of philanthropic backing to the people of Afghanistan, and called for neighbouring countries to play a formative part in Afghanistan, sources said Doval will hold another set of one-of-one meetings Wednesday with the security heads of Russia, Iran and Kazakhstan, after the main security dialogue is over Meanwhile, the Uzbek security chief also met External Affairs MinisterS. Jaishankar.
