As a long-hostile of Taliban and excluded from the ongoing Afghan peace process, New Delhi is growing its engagement with Taliban, to safeguard its interests and installations in Afghanistan, after the withdrawal of US forces from the country.

A workable power-sharing format would therefore have to be a political arrangement on which these contradictory political forces can come to rest.

Even after the release of 5,000 Taliban prisoners and the U.S. adhering to its withdrawal timetable, the Taliban refuse to commit to a ceasefire.