RECENTLY, Afghanistan’s neighbours held consultations in the Iranian capital on security and its impact on regional stability, under the Tehran Format. Special representatives on Afghanistan from Pakistan, China, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan participated in the meeting. But the Afghan Taliban declined to attend.
The Tehran Format is not the only regional process which has been initiated for regional consensus building on Afghanistan’s security situation. Since 2014, 10 multilateral platforms have been introduced on various occasions by several regional and extra-regional countries to facilitate coordination and avoid regional and international confrontation on Afghanistan’s security affairs. The most notable among them is the Moscow Format, and keeping in view the Russia-Iran strategic partnership, the Tehran Format is an extended version of the Moscow process.
Pakistan has been an active member of almost all of these regional processes including the two aforementioned, the SCO Contact Group on Afghan
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