Hours ahead of his dinner with President Barack Obama, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today cautioned the US against hasty withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan, citing the mistakes it has committed while pulling out from Iraq.
Modi told the Council on Foreign Relations here that India and the US together had played a big role in Afghanistan in recent years.
India, he said, had told the US that the process of withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan should be slow to stop the rise of Taliban.
"We want Afghanistan which recently held the Presidential elections and formed a new government to grow democratically," he said.
