more-inIndia should not consider deploying troops in Afghanistan under any circumstances but should step up other diplomatic engagements, said leading strategic experts. What we do most effectively, which is not projected, is to persuade other international players to continue to remain engaged in Afghanistan because that’s a project of long duration. And that’s the long game that we are playing,” said Jayant Prasad, former Ambassador to Afghanistan and Director General of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses. He was speaking on Wednesday at the release of the book The Great Game in Afghanistan: Rajiv Gandhi, General Zia and the Unending War by Kallol Bhattacherjee. The book details the efforts to set up a coalition government in Kabul after the withdrawal of the Soviet Union.

Source: The Hindu July 12, 2017 16:41 UTC