New Delhi: National Security Advisor Ajit Doval has discussed the worsening security situation in conflict-wracked Afghanistan with Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev.
Doval held a conversation with Patrushev on the sidelines of Sanghai Cooperation Organization in the Tajik capital Dushanbe and exchanged views on Afghanistan and the broader Asia-Pacific region.
They exchanged views on the situation in Afghanistan and the broader Asia-Pacific region, said the Russian Council.
Doval, who was in Dushanbe for the SCO NSAs meeting over the last two days, discussed in detail “further plans of the Russia-India interaction in the security sphere, cooperation among the security and law-enforcement agencies,” the Council’s press office said.
Also, on Thursday at the Moscow Conference on International Security, Patrushev cautioned about the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan as US and NATO troops withdraw, and said there would be an increase in terrorist activity there.
“The degradation of the situation in Afghanistan will contribute to an increase in the terrorist activity of Islamic State terror group and al-Qaeda in that country,” TASS quoted him as saying.
“We see the preconditions for an intensification of international terrorism in other areas as well.”
A day before, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu at the same conference warned that a civil war could erupt in Afghanistan following US-NATO troops pullout.
