China that on Tuesday hosted the first ever trilateral foreign ministers meet with Afghanistan and Pakistan said it had discussed extending China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) to Afghanistan, a move that will concern India.

Following talks in Beijing with Afghan FM Rabbani and Pakistan FM Khawaja Asif, Chinese FM Wang Yi told reporters that Afghanistan has urgent need to develop and improve people's lives and hopes it can join inter-connectivity initiatives.

"So China and Pakistan are willing to look at with Afghanistan, on the basis of win-win, mutually beneficial principles, using an appropriate means to extend the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor to Afghanistan," he was quoted as saying by Reuters.

India has strongly objected to CPEC as it passes through PoK, but China is seeking to bring other countries on board and dubbed CPEC as "a flagship" project or President Xi's pet One Belt, One Road plan.

Khawaja said that "the successful implementation of CPEC (China-Pakistan Economic Corridor) projects will serve as a model for enhancing connectivity and cooperation through similar projects with neighbouring countries, including Afghanistan, Iran and with central and west Asia," he said.

China looking to corner India? Beijing to extend CPEC to Afghanistan

Connecting Pakistan and China crucial for development in Afghanistan, said Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.