NEW DELHI -- India is stepping up engagement with Afghanistan's Taliban rulers, insisting that it has only humanitarian motivations, while analysts frame the ties in the context of geopolitical rivalries with China and Pakistan.
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India's Taliban outreach offers Afghanistan a China alternative
New Delhi says diplomacy in Kabul only about aid; analysts see deeper reasons
J. P. Singh, joint secretary in India's foreign ministry, meets the Taliban's Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in Kabul. (Photo from Taliban spokesman Abdul Qahar Balkhi's Twitter account)
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