Trump: 'Not fair' India not fighting terror in Afghanistan

US President Donald Trump believes that New Delhi, Tehran, and Moscow would have to fight against the terrorists in Afghanistan at some point of time.

Washington: US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said, it is 'not fair' that India, which is geographically 'much closer' to Afghanistan than the US, is not fighting terrorist groups in the war-ravaged nation.

Trump said, "Look, India is right there. They are not fighting it. We are fighting it. Pakistan is right next door. They are fighting it very little. Very, very little. It's not fair. The United States is 7,000 miles away."

Trump, who has been repeatedly talking about mediation in the Kashmir problem, also said that countries including India, Iran, and Russia would have to fight against the terrorists in Afghanistan at some point of time.

"Shortly, Russia, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and Turkey are going to fight their battles too. I did it in record time but at a certain point all of these other countries where ISIS is around they have been decimated, by the way, badly decimated," he said.

The statement came days after around 80 people lost their lives in a suicide attack launched by the ISIS in Kabul.

"All of these countries are going to have to fight them because do we want to stay there for another 19 years? I don't think so," he added.

Trump has repeatedly said that he wants American troops out of Afghanistan.

Washington is leading the Afghan peace process with the Taliban. The talks are centred around the US' promise to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan, in exchange for the guarantee by Taliban that the Afghan soil, particularly the areas under their control, would not become a platform for transnational terrorism.

On Tuesday, Trump indicated that the US forces will not be completely withdrawn from Afghanistan.

Early this month, Washington's special representative for Taliban peace talks Zalmay Khalilzad had come to India and held discussion with External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar. The two leaders discussed how New Delhi and Washington could work effectively to ensure lasting peace in Afghanistan that has been engulfed in an 18-year-long war.