India anticipated Taliban takeover but timeline surprised us, says CDS Bipin Rawat
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In his first comments on Afghanistan, India's Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat has said that "Taliban takeover was anticipated" but the "timeline surprised us". On August 15, the Taliban took over the Afghan national capital Kabul with the then Afghan President Ashraf Ghani leaving the country. General Rawat said, Everything that has happened was something that was anticipated, only the timelines have changed.