India, Pak, Russia Have Stake In Fixed Future Of Afghanistan: Joe Biden

US President Joe Biden has said India, Pakistan, Russia, China, and Turkey have a big stake in Afghanistan's secure future and these regional stakeholders ought to do extra to deliver peace in this war-torn country, from the place he will withdraw all American troops using September 11.
"We will ask different international locations in the area to do greater to assist Afghanistan, specifically Pakistan, as nicely as Russia, China, India, and Turkey. They all have an extensive stake in the secure future of Afghanistan," Biden stated in a nationally televised speech from the White House on Wednesday.

In much less than one hundred days after taking over as the president of the US on January 20, Biden introduced to start to withdraw all American troops from Afghanistan by using September 11.

The US presently has a little over 2,500 troops, which is a way much less than the 100,000-plus throughout the Barack Obama administration.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki informed newshounds that there is no navy answer to Afghanistan's cutting-edge state of affairs, as a substitute a diplomatic answer is required.

"Even as we are withdrawing our troops, we will proceed to help diplomatic and humanitarian work. We will ask different international locations to step up, whether or not it truly is Pakistan, Russia, China, India, Turkey -- international locations in the area that in reality have a stake in stability. We will proceed to furnish substantial humanitarian resources," Psaki stated in response to a question.

"We will proceed to be engaged. This is the president's evaluation about whether or not having troops on the ground, an army presence in an identical way -- in a model of the equal way it has been over the remaining two many years -- is in our countrywide interest. And he has made the choice it is not," she said.

Biden stated the hostilities in Afghanistan used to be by no means supposed to be a multi-generational undertaking. "We have been attacked. We went to battle with clear goals. We accomplished these objectives. (Osama) Bin Laden is dead, and al Qaeda is degraded in Iraq, in Afghanistan. And it's time to cease the perpetual war," he asserted.

On Wednesday, the Biden administration did not supply a small print of its expectations from India on the latter's function in Afghanistan after the whole withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan.

In the past, successive US administrations have praised India's position in peace and improvement in Afghanistan.

"India has been the best nearby contributor to Afghan reconstruction, however, New Delhi has not verified a bent to pursue a deeper safety dating with Kabul," said a modern document on Afghanistan thru the independent Congressional Research Service.

"Pakistan's safety establishment, nervous of strategic encirclement by way of India, curiously continues to view the Afghan Taliban as an extraordinarily pleasant and reliably anti-India factor in Afghanistan. India's diplomatic and business presence in Afghanistan and US rhetorical help for it exacerbates Pakistani fears of encirclement," stated 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 domestic from America's longest war.

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 attacks, America has spent larger than USD 1 trillion in conflict and rebuilding in Afghanistan.

About 2,400 US troopers have been killed, alongside tens of heaps of Afghan troops, Taliban insurgents, and Afghan civilians.