India sides with Taliban, Pakistan & China, slams Trump bid to take over Bagram base

The seventh meeting of the Moscow Format Consultations on Afghanistan was held in Moscow at the level of special representatives and senior officials of Afghanistan, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. A delegation from Belarus also attended the meeting as guests. "For the first time, the Afghan delegation headed by Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi participated in the meeting as a member," the statement said. Trump has demanded that Afghanistan's ruling Taliban hand over the country's Bagram air base to Washington, five years after he signed a deal with the group that paved the way for…