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We should ask Afghans for an airbase in Badakhshan & should start mining activity. Badakhshan is in northern areas, free of Taliban & has important Wakhan corridor
This maybe true but the profile is most certainly fake. Amrullah Saleh doesn't speak or write Madarasa English.Porkis attack cricket training camp in Jalalabad after losing to Afghanistan twice in U-19 cup
Nope that's definitely his profile. His English is good but imperfect.
This maybe true but the profile is most certainly fake. Amrullah Saleh doesn't speak or write Madarasa English.
Dayum, I stand corrected. Thanks.Nope that's definitely his profile. His English is good but imperfect.
They'll be in for a culture shock, though it's a good thing. There were about 20 afghans in my college hostel in Chennai. We took a few of them around the city. They were very fascinated with all our tall buildings and malls, and when they saw the beach their minds were blown. None of them had seen open water like that before. But even the Afghans were very disturbed by the level of garbage and smell in many parts of the city, and the incessant cow shit present in almost all streets. They told me that in Afghanistan people think India is almost like Dubai, and were quite shocked to see the actual state of development.In a first, 20 women army, air force officers from Afghanistan to be trained in Chennai
NEW DELHI: For the first time, a group of 20 women army and air force officers from Afghanistan will be trained at the Officers' Training Academy in Chennai. The group, who were given a celebratory send-off by the Indian ambassador in Kabul, Manpreet Vohra, will go through a rigorous training module in India. They left Kabul on Tuesday.
This comes on the heels of yet another group of only women entrepreneurs who were sent by the Afghan government to India to participate in the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) in Hyderabad last week.
The current batch of officers and officials from the Afghan defence ministry will be given a preparatory training program at the OTA. They will go back to pick a fresh batch of women officers who will come in for full training modules from 2018.
"We are expanding our armed forces and women will play a bigger role," said Shaida Abdali, Afghan ambassador to India.
At any given time, there are about 300 Afghan officers being trained in India, the largest number at the IMA in Dehradun.
Afghan media quoted the Indian Embassy in Kabul as saying, "For the first time, a batch of 20 Lady officers from the Afghan Army and Afghan Air Force departed for a training module at Officers Training Academy, Chennai."
This comes a day after Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani hailed India's contribution in various sectors of the country. Emphasising that India is a good partner, President Ghani insisted that the Afghan government is committed to further strengthening bilateral cooperation with India.
The President made the remarks during a meeting with the members of the Lower and Upper Houses of the Parliament to brief the lawmakers regarding his recent foreign trips and interactions, Khaama Press reported.
Dismissing misperceptions regarding the presence and role of India in Afghanistan, President Ghani said the Afghan government has no hidden deal with any country and no foreign state will be allowed to use the Afghan soil against the neighbours of the country. Kabul, he said, has shared interests with New Delhi and the Afghan government will continue to use the economic opportunities provided by India for the development of the country.
Pakistan has long been opposing the presence of India in Afghanistan but Afghan officials have repeatedly rejected these protests and even the United States has endorsed the constructive role of New Delhi in the rehabilitation of Afghanistan.
India has played a vital role in the reconstruction of Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban regime and has invested over $2 billion in various projects. In 2017, India pledged an extra $1 billion including 116 small development projects as well as a new dam in Afghanistan.
http://www.janes.com/article/76586/afghanistan-in-line-to-receive-mi-35-helos-from-indiaAfghanistan in line to receive Mi-35 helos from India
21 December 2017
Afghanistan could receive Mil Mi-35 ‘Hind-E’ assault helicopters donated from India, according to a media report.
India is looking to buy an undisclosed number of surplus Mi-35s from third-part countries, which it would then pass on to Afghanistan, The Hindu reported on 21 December.
According to the report, which cited unnamed Indian and Afghan officials, a team from the Indian Ministry of Defence will travel to an undisclosed Eastern European country to look into sourcing the helicopters. The Hindu named Serbia and/or Ukraine as being likely donors, although it should be noted that the former does not currently operate the ‘Hind’, while the latter fields the older Mi-24 model of the helicopter.
Equipping the Afghan National Defence and Security Forces (ANDSF) in general and the Afghan Air Force (AAF) in particular is overseen by the United States’ Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR).
It is the current policy of the United States to transition the ANDSF and AAF from its previously-held largely Russian-built inventory over to US-built and supplied equipment. For the air force, this has meant replacing the Mi-35s with MDHI MD530F Cayuse Warrior light attack helicopters and Sierra-Nevada Corporation/Embraer A-29 Super Tucano light attack aircraft.
While acquiring new Mi-35s for the AAF would appear to fly in the face of this equipment policy, the Mi-24/25/35 does have some unique capabilities in its ability to transport troops while providing effective close air support that cannot be so easily replicated by any US-built platform. Its ruggedness and survivability are also well suited to the hostile Afghan operation environment.
India had previously donated four Mi-25 helicopters to Afghanistan, the first of which arrived in-country in December 2015. These Mi-25s were intended to replace five Mi-35s that had already been grounded due to serviceability issues.
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