Taliban is a 'sheer terrorist organisation': SM Krishna

External affairs minister SM Krishna has said that India does not make any distinction between a "good Taliban and a bad Taliban" and considers the extremist group as a terrorist organisation.

"Taliban per se from the Indian point of view is a sheer terrorist organisation," Krishna told PTI here, denying his reported remark seeking a political settlement in Afghanistan. He said he had spoken about a "political settlement among the people."

"What the people of Afghanistan want is something that they have to decide for  themselves," he added. 

In a recent interview published in the Wall Street Journal, Krishna was reported as saying that India believed there was no military solution to the conflict in Afghanistan
and that Nato combat operations should give way to a political settlement with Taliban.