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NEW DELHI: Even as it backs a stronger role for India in the Afghanistan peace process, Russia is yet to make up its mind on India’s participation in the extended troika format involving US, China, Russia and Pakistan. The group is promoting a negotiated settlement with comprehensive and permanent ceasefire. After Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov’s remark last week in Tashkent that Moscow was considering India and Iran’s participation in the format, President Vladimir Putin’s special envoy for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, said India can’t join the group because “it has no influence with the Taliban”. “The format of the extended...
