India has now aligned with the Taliban, Pakistan, China, and Russia in opposing the U.S. President Donald Trump’s bid to regain control of the Bagram air base in Afghanistan. The announcement comes days ahead of the scheduled visit of Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi to New Delhi, a historic first for a senior Taliban diplomat.

What the countries said?

The seventh meeting of the Moscow Format Consultations on Afghanistan took place in Moscow, attended by special representatives and senior officials from Afghanistan, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, with Belarus present as a guest.

A joint statement issued by the participants said, “They called unacceptable the attempts by countries to deploy their military infrastructure

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