This year's Herat Security Dialogue started on Tuesday in Dushanbe, the capital city of Tajikistan, focussing on "Inclusive Political System: The Way Forward".

Several Afghan and foreign politicians, experts, and researchers have participated in this conference.

Herat Security Dialogue is one of the most important conferences about the security of Afghanistan and the region, which has been organised by the Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies since the past ten years.

After the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban, Herat Security Dialogue has been held outside of Afghanistan for the first time.

Earlier, reliable sources said that the governments of Pakistan and Iran have not allowed two important participants of the dialogue to attend the event.

On Monday, reliable sources told Afghanistan International that Mohammad Ismail Khan, a prominent Afghan political leader living in Iran, has not been allowed to attend the conference.

According to the sources, Ismail Khan was invited to the meeting, but apparently, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) prevented him from travelling to Tajikistan.

On Sunday, Mohsen Dawar, a member of Pakistan's House of Representatives and one of the leaders of the Pashtun Protection Movement, announced that Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) had not allowed him to travel to Tajikistan.