New Delhi: India on Tuesday joined Russia, China, Pakistan, Iran and several other Central Asian nations in opposing United States President Donald Trump’s bid to take back control of the military base at Bagram in Afghanistan.

Even as its relations with Washington, D.C., of late came under stress, New Delhi lent its voice to the clamour against the US move to regain control of the Bagram Air Base near Kabul from the Taliban government in Afghanistan.

India, Iran, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan joined the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in terming as “unacceptable” the “attempts by countries to deploy their military infrastructure in Afghanistan and neighbouring states”, noting that such moves would “not serve the interests of regional peace and

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