New Delhi, July 17 -- India should prepare for a potential new chapter in today's Great Game in Afghanistan, in which it may be reduced to a footnote. That India is not part of the present talks between the United States (US), Pakistan, China and Russia on the future of Afghanistan is no surprise. India was not part of the original three-nation talks from which these were derived, and has been regularly excluded from Afghan-related talks. There is a strong correlation between Pakistan's presence at the table and India's exclusion. What has made the present talks different from the past is the determination of the US President Donald Trump to end the US' military presence in Afghanistan, irrespective of the consequences. The present negotiations notably exclude both India and the present government in Kabul....