Pakistan has raised “serious reservations” to the United States over inviting India to upcoming UN-led meeting of regional foreign countries to forge regional consensus on Afghanistan, reported Expressed Tribune. 

In a new approach, the Biden Administration has proposed a UN conference of foreign ministers of the United States, Russia, China, Pakistan, Iran and India to seek a political solution to the Afghan conflict.

“We have serious reservations over inviting India at the UN conference. How can a spoiler have any constructive role,” a senior Pakistani official was quoted as saying by the Tribune.

"The reservations have already been conveyed to the US side," the official said while referring to the recent visit of the US special envoy for Afghanistan to Islamabad and also during a telephonic conversation between the US Secretary of State and the army chief.

Earlier this week, Pakistan Army chief General Qamar held over a 50-minute long telephonic conversation with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, confirmed a source, although no details were provided to media.

Last week, US special representative on Afghanistan reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad, and Gen Austin Miller, the commander of the US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, had also held discussions with Pakistan’s civilian and military leaders of Pakistan.