National Security Adviser Dr Moeed Yusuf while speaking on Dawn News programme ‘Live with Adil Shahzeb’ said that India should be ashamed of meeting the Afghan Taliban  after having supported operations against the insurgent group for a long time.

Yusuf was responding to the Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar’s recent stopovers in Doha to meet with the Taliban leadership twice in the last three weeks.

“I want to ask this: with what [moral] standing did this Indian high-level official meet [the Taliban] there? Did they not feel ashamed?” Yusuf said when asked how Pakistan viewed the India-Taliban meetings.

India should be ashamed of meeting Afghan #Taliban. With what [moral] standing did Indian high-level official meet [the Taliban].."[The Indians] kept having the Taliban killed and kept giving funds for operations against them..” says NSA Dr. @YusufMoeed

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“[The Indians] kept having the Taliban killed daily and kept giving funds for operations against them and today they have reached there to have talks,” he added.

Yusuf said the meetings were “a matter of shame” and not a strategic move.

He emphasised that the Taliban, whom the Indians had met, were also “not stupid”, saying he was not concerned by the contacts between India and the insurgent group amid the United States withdrawal from Afghanistan.

“You should also ask what response the [Indians] got from the [Taliban],” he added.

Speaking about Pakistan-India relations, the NSA said there were no backdoor talks or dialogue between the two countries for now.

‘’India contacted us [and said] that they wanted to fix [relations] and we told them we desired the restoration of pre-August 2019 status of Indian-occupied Kashmir; besides, our policy is based on the ease of life for Kashmiris,’’ he stated.