India weighs up new security risks in wake of Taliban takeover

New Delhi faces problem of greater Pakistani influence on Afghanistan and implications for Kashmir insurgency

As the Taliban last week announced the cabinet set to now govern Afghanistan, 600 miles away in Delhi, the mood was sombre. Of the 33 men who were given key posts, almost all have been with the Taliban since the group emerged in the 1990s, and - aside from five who had been held in Guantanamo Bay until last year - all had spent the past 20 years in hiding in Pakistan.

The Haqqanis, a faction of the Taliban known for their close ties to Pakistan and hardline belief in global jihad, were particularly well represented in the cabinet.