Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat on Thursday said that he supported a negotiated peace deal between the US and Taliban in Afghanistan. Gen. Rawat was speaking along with other world leaders at Raisina dialogue organised by India's influential think-tank Observer Research Foundation (ORF). Arguing that terrorism was going to stay in the world as long as states were going to use it against other states, he said it was important to prevent states from using terrorism as a 'proxy war'.'The only way to deal with it was what the US did post 9/11,' he said, adding that the war against terror was necessary.However, now a peace deal with Taliban is required, Gen. Rawat said.

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