India, Pakistan amongst others with stake in secure way forward for Afghanistan, says US President Biden

US President Joe Biden has mentioned India, Pakistan, Russia, China, and Turkey have a major stake within the secure way forward for Afghanistan and these regional stakeholders ought to do extra to deliver peace on this war-torn nation, from the place he’ll withdraw all American troops by September 11.
“We will ask other countries in the region to do more to support Afghanistan, especially Pakistan, as well as Russia, China, India, and Turkey. They all have a significant stake in the stable future of Afghanistan,” Biden mentioned in a nationally televised speech from the White House on Wednesday.
In lower than 100 days after taking on because the president of the US on January 20, Biden introduced to start to withdraw all American troops from Afghanistan by September 11.
The US presently has slightly over 2,500 troops, which is way lower than the 100,000-plus in the course of the Barack Obama administration.
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki informed reporters that there isn’t a army resolution to the present state of affairs Afghanistan, quite a diplomatic resolution is required.

“Even as we are withdrawing our troops, we will continue to support diplomatic and humanitarian work. We will ask other countries to step up, whether that’s Pakistan, Russia, China, India, Turkey — countries in the region that certainly have a stake in stability. We will continue to provide significant humanitarian resources,” Psaki mentioned in response to a query.
“We will continue to be engaged. This is the president’s assessment about whether having troops on the ground, a military presence in the same way — in a version of the same way it has been over the last two decades — is in our national interest. And he has made the decision it is not,” she added.
Biden mentioned the struggle in Afghanistan was by no means meant to be a multi-generational endeavor. “We were attacked. We went to war with clear goals. We achieved those objectives. (Osama) Bin Laden is dead, and al Qaeda is degraded in Iraq, in Afghanistan. And it’s time to end the forever war,” he asserted.
The Biden administration on Wednesday didn’t give particulars of its expectations from India on the latter’s function in Afghanistan after the whole withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan.
In the previous, successive US administrations have praised India’s function in peace and growth in Afghanistan.
“India has been the largest regional contributor to Afghan reconstruction, but New Delhi has not shown an inclination to pursue a deeper defense relationship with Kabul,” mentioned a latest report on Afghanistan by the unbiased Congressional Research Service.
“Pakistan’s security establishment, fearful of strategic encirclement by India, apparently continues to view the Afghan Taliban as a relatively friendly and reliably anti-India element in Afghanistan. India’s diplomatic and commercial presence in Afghanistan and US rhetorical support for it exacerbates Pakistani fears of encirclement,” mentioned the CRS report.
The US and the Taliban signed a landmark deal in Doha on February 29, 2020 to deliver lasting peace in war-torn Afghanistan and permit US troops to return residence from America’s longest struggle.

Under the US-Taliban pact signed in Doha, the US agreed to withdraw all its troopers from Afghanistan in 14 months.
Since the US-led invasion that ousted the Taliban after the September 11, 2001 assaults, America has spent greater than USD 1 trillion in combating and rebuilding in Afghanistan.
About 2,400 US troopers have been killed, together with tens of hundreds of Afghan troops, Taliban insurgents and Afghan civilians.