{"id":302957,"date":"2018-09-19T09:27:59","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T09:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=302957"},"modified":"2018-09-19T09:28:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T09:28:01","slug":"afghanistan-president-ghani-arrives-in-new-delhi-to-hold-bilateral-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/afghanistan-president-ghani-arrives-in-new-delhi-to-hold-bilateral-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan President Ghani arrives in New Delhi to hold bilateral talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/afghanistan-president-ghani-arrives-in-new-delhi-to-hold-bilateral-talks\/ghani-modi\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-302958\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-302958 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ghani-modi-300x295.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/ghani-modi-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/ghani-modi-428x420.jpg 428w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/ghani-modi.jpg 672w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a>Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani arrived in New Delhi on Wednesday to hold bilateral discussions with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on a number of key issues of mutual interests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">President Ghani was received by Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri at the airport.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Regional security, including the possibility of peace talks with Taliban, trade and India\u2019s development work in Afghanistan are among the issues that will be discussed during President Ghani\u2019s one day visit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Both leaders are also expected to review the progress made on the infrastructure work being done in Afghanistan by India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India Foundation is scheduled to hold a civic reception in President Ghani\u2019s honour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale had last week travelled to Kabul to chair a meeting of the joint working group on political and security cooperation between India and Afghanistan. He had also attended trilateral talks involving Iran.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">President Ghani\u2019s visit to New Delhi comes within days of Pakistan Foreign Minister visited Afghanistan and held crucial talks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">External Minister of Affairs Spokesperson Raveesh Kumar tweeted, \u201cA strategic partnership since 2011 that has gone from strength to strength! President of Afghanistan, @ashrafghani warmly welcomed by Minister of State Housing and Urban Development @HardeepSPuri upon his arrival in Delhi.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani arrived in New Delhi on Wednesday to hold bilateral discussions with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on a number of key issues of mutual interests. President Ghani was received by Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri at the airport. Regional security, including the possibility of peace talks with Taliban, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":302958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[428,5147,1274,316,1427],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302960,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302957\/revisions\/302960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}