NEW DELHI, 18 October 2021, (TON): Engulfed in fear that the Taliban's resounding victory in Afghanistan could reignite the freedom movement in Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), India has proposed to host an in-person meeting of the National Security Advisors (NSAs) on Afghanistan issue in New Delhi next month, inviting "key stakeholders" including Russia and archrivals Pakistan and China.

According to Indian media, India has suggested two dates, November 10 and 11, for the meeting in its capital.

The invitation has been extended to Pakistan’s NSA Moeed Yusuf amid increased tensions in IIOJK. The report quoted sources privy to the development as saying that all stakeholders have to be engaged to defuse the impending humanitarian and security crises in Afghanistan following the Taliban's takeover of Kabul.

India is also due to participate in the Moscow Format meeting on the Afghan situation on October 20.

On any humanitarian assistance India is extending or has extended to Afghanistan, Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said that India's policy towards Afghanistan is "guided by its friendship with the Afghan people."

The development comes at a time when fears were growing in New Delhi that the Taliban's victory in Afghanistan could ignite the freedom movement in Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

About 40 people have been killed in shootings and clashes in the two months in the Himalayan region since the Taliban overran Kabul on August 15.

Occupied valley's Sikh and Hindu communities have been targeted in the gun battles in which many soldiers and separatists were also left dead.