India today said that international presence in the war-torn Afghanistan is needed for a much longer time. Just back from Kabul after attending an international conference on Afghanistan, External Affairs Minister S M Krishna told PTI here that he shared President Hamid Karzai's enthusiasm for Afghan forces to take over security of the entire country from 2014.Earlier, the US announced that it will begin pulling out its troops from Afghanistan from July 2011. Responding to a question as to whether the US decision to commence troops pull out in a year was premature, Mr. Krishna said, international presence is needed in Afghanistan for a much longer time than it has now been projected. He also added that international presence will act as some kind of insulation to Afghanistan for normalisation. Asked if India is willing to help in raising the security forces necessary for the task, the minister said, if Afghanistan asks India shall help. Asked whether India would like the US to take a fresh look at its decision, the minister said that New Delhi had conveyed its views to the US and to Afghanistan in bilateral meetings. To a question on Pakistan's efforts to play the power broker in Afghanistan, Mr. Krishna said that India had emphasized that initiative for future set up in the country had to be Afghan-led and Afghan-owned.