India pleased with military pressure on Taliban in Afghanistan

New Delhi, Dec 2 (PTI) Welcoming United States' extended
commitments in Afghanistan, India Wednesday said it was not
"complaining" about not finding a mention in President Barack
Obama's Af-Pak policy speech and was "pleased" that military
pressure on Taliban will not be eased there.

"India is not complaining at all," Indian Minister of
State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor told reporters when
asked if India was feeling 'left out' on not being mentioned
in Obama's speech.
"What you are overlooking is that our Prime Minister has
just been there. He received a pretty thorough exposition of
the US' views on the issue and President Obama called him up
in Delhi yesterday to brief him further before his public
speech in the US," he added.
Pointing out that India has always maintained that it
doesn't have a direct involvement in Afghanistan, Tharoor
said, "American abbreviation for their policy is Af-Pak and I
see India in neither of those two abbreviations. Afghanistan
and Pakistan are the focus of this policy and focus of
President Obama's speech."
Tharoor welcomed US' continued commitment in Afghanistan
and said India was "very pleased that pressure on Al-Qaeda and
Taliban in Afghanistan and on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border
will not be eased." MORE PTI AJD
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