Indian Role in Afghanistan

[OrangeFlorian]

Is it really a good idea to give Peshawar back to the Afghans. Just saying

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhara

 

[OrangeFlorian]

We could do a lot of good in Peshawar if we could just get our hands on it.

 

[IBSA]

Peshawar was the winter capital city of Durrani Empire. Amir Abdurrahman had dreamed to take back Peshawar for Afghanistan.

Furthermore, Peshawar is a big city and would increase with some millions dollar the small Afghan budget.

KPK and FATA for Afghanistan!

 

[Mikesingh]

Pak military doctrine of 'strategic depth' against India has blown up in their faces! They've been trying to do this since 2001, but have come a cropper. In fact this mess in Afghanistan is solely due to the Paki military trying to establish a puppet Taliban regime in Afghanistan that will do its bidding and finally become an extension of Pakistan.

No insurgency can last without active external support. Thus the Taliban are still alive and kicking even after 15 years thanks to the active support of the Paki Army and ISI without which they would have been busted years ago.

Pakistan has now become a dysfunctional, rogue state. Balochistan will soon go all out to fight for its independence followed by Sindh. In other words, disintegration is near but that could mean bad news for the region as the terrorists the Establishment has spawned, will start running riot. With more than half the Paki Army with a jehadist mindset, would their nukes then be safe? That's the million dollar question?

 

[Zulfiqar Khan]

They dont have to accept it, we dont care; we'll continue to build the fence/wall and they can continue to cry and moan.

 

[angeldude13]

@Blackwater Pajji what is wrong with the Paki Punjabis? Indian punjabis are awesum and fun loving people while on the other hand paki punjabis are terrorist of worst kind.

 

[Screambowl]

It is time to teach lesson to porkis. Fund Kabul regime and prepare them!!

 

[angeldude13]

It is time to teach lesson to porkis. Fund Kabul regime and prepare them!!

Nukes for Viets and Aghans

 

[Screambowl]

Nukes for Viets and Aghans

India can provide them with Brahmos lol .. that will be terrific for Phukkis

 

[Blackwater]

@Blackwater Pajji what is wrong with the Paki Punjabis? Indian punjabis are awesum and fun loving people while on the other hand paki punjabis are terrorist of worst kind.

after effects of inbreed and incest ism.

 

[OrangeFlorian]

let us give them a couple pinakas their relatively cheap

 

[Kshatriya87]

India steams into Afghan border to counter Pakistan

NEW DELHI: Ditching its long-held worry of feeding into Islamabad’s insecurities by helping Kabul, India will start work on a 500-km-long rail track in the Hajigak region of Afghanistan, giving the country access to the Iranian port of Chabahar, just 72 km west of Pakistan’s Gwadar port that is being built with Chinese help.

Rail tracks from Khaaf in Iran reached zero point at the Afghan border and now the track-laying on Afghan side will begin. “Iran has finished its half. Now the first phase inside Afghan territory to lay 62 km in Ghoriyan district has been launched and will take around four months to complete,” sources said. Indian Ambassador to Afghanistan Manpreet Vohra attended the ceremony at the Iran-Afghan border on September 7.

The rail link passing through the mineral rich region of Afghanistan will open a new trade route for India to Central Asia and will reduce Afghanistan’s dependence on Pakistan for trade. The track to Chabahar port will allow exploration of the vast mineral reserves in the region bypassing Pakistan, which has refused New Delhi land access to Kabul. Hajigak, 130 km west of Kabul in Bamiyan province, has iron reserves worth $3 trillion. Twenty-two companies have been shortlisted to mine these, of which 14 are Indian, including a consortium led by Steel Authority of India Limited.

While India has shied away from providing boots on the ground, it has seized the opportunity to provide strategic assistance to Kabul with helicopters and rail tracks to provide sea access to the landlocked country. The network, seen as an answer to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, will be the launchpad for India for greater economic and strategic engagement with oil-rich Central Asia. There are prospects of tie-ups with Iran and Russia to create a network to Central Asia and finally to Europe through the International North-South Transport Corridor.

Pakistan recently rubbed in the influence it wields in Afghanistan’s trade when it closed the Friendship Gate at Chaman Post for over two weeks, crippling Kabul’s exports. Afghan imports through Karachi port declined by more than 40 per cent in February, and Afghan-Indian trade volume could increase four-fold if a trilateral agreement materialises.

Ministry of External Affairs officials have indicated that the three countries have during the 2nd India-Afghanistan-Iran trilateral in Tehran decided to hold meetings between experts on aspects of the project. Recommendations will be discussed in the 3rd Trilateral meeting in Kabul.

 

[Indx TechStyle]

Uri effect? India, Afghanistan bypass Pak to set up exclusive air corridor

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New Delhi: India and Afghanistan will set up an exclusive air corridor to boost bilateral trade after Pakistan turned down an Afghan request to use its land routes.

According to the ANI news agency, both sides have reached agreement for establishing an air corridor for goods trade.

“We reached an agreement with India for establishment of an air corridor, to send Afghan goods through the air,” the report quoted Afghan President Ashraf Ghani as saying.

Ghani during his two-day visit to India last week urged the Indian businessmen to use the air route for trade in a bid to help free his landlocked country from the constraints of those neighbours, who do not wish his country well.

Earlier this month, he called upon Pakistan to allow Kabul to engage in trade with India through its land routes, a request turned down by Islamabad.

The bilateral trade between India and Afghanistan stood at less than $685 million in 2014-15.

However, the trade relations can realize its true potential if the Wagah-Attari route is opened for bilateral trade with Afghanistan.

The Afghanistan Pakistan Transit Trade Agreement (APTTA) has been restrictive in this aspect.

The APTTA is a bilateral trade agreement between Islamabad and Kabul. It has been renegotiated several times.

The treaty was signed in 1950 which gave Afghanistan the right to import duty-free goods through Karachi.

The US has maintained that it would encourage Ghani’s move of asking Pakistan to include India in the transit trade agreement for stronger trade relations between all countries of the region.

Speaking at the daily press briefing, Deputy Spokesperson of the US State Department, Mark C Toner said, “I would just say, speaking broadly, that we would support stronger trade relations within the region.

“And we’ve long said that it’s a priority for the United States at least, but it should be a priority for the countries in the region to all work more cooperatively and constructively together.

“And a trade agreement would be part of that.”

When asked as to what was his position on Afghanistan asking India’s inclusion in the transit trade agreement it has with Pakistan, Toner replied, “I think we would encourage, as I said, stronger trade relations between all the countries of the region.”

 

[SANITY]

Afghanistan to open Consulate in Hyderabad city of India

Afghanistan will open a Consulate in Hyderabad city of India in a bid to help expand bilateral ties between the two nations at difference levels, it has been reported.

The Afghan Ambassador to India Shaida Mohammad Abdali has said the main focus of the Consulate will be to expand facilities for educatin, healthcare, trade and business.

He was addressing members of industry bodies FICCI and FTAPCCI during a gathering on Friday, according to the local newspapers.

“We are going to soon send a delegation to Hyderabad to look for a place for the Consulate,” he told reporters.

According to The Hindu newspaper, Afghanistan, which now has its Embassy in Delhi and a Consulate in Mumbai, proposes to have a commercial attache office in Kolkata.

Ambassador Abdali said there are 1,000 Afghanistan students in the city and the scope for growing trade and business is good as he highlighted the significance of the Consulate in Hyderabad.

The bilateral trade now is around $700 million and he expected it to touch $1 billion in a few years.

Once the Consulate opens there is a possibility of airlines operating services between Kabul and Hyderabad, he said, adding air carriers at present only linked Kabul and Delhi.

 

[Kshatriya87]

• Moscow took centre-stage for a six-nation conference on Afghanistan’s security future in the region, hosting India, Iran, Pakistan, China and Afghanistan, on Wednesday, and cutting out the U.S., Europe and NATO from its deliberations. What makes the conference, and its location, significant is Russia’s leadership, 30 years after Soviet troops withdrew from Afghanistan. The meet follows from a previous conference two months ago when Russia invited only Pakistan and China, drawing protests from Afghanistan and India. The trilateral initiative, however brief, denoted a major shift in Russia’s thinking on Afghanistan, in particular on its security future.
  
  Legitimate stakeholder
  To begin with, Russia now believes the Taliban is a “legitimate stakeholder” in the conflict, that must be engaged, and is the “lesser evil” than Islamic State/Da’esh forces in Afghanistan. To this end, Russia and China have been cooperating closely at the U.N. Security Council Taliban sanctions committee to delist key Taliban figures. Russian officials now freely use the Good Taliban/Bad Taliban narrative once adopted by the U.S. to push for talks between Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s government and the Taliban even as the Afghan National Army faces terror attacks and fights pitched battle with Taliban guerrillas.
  
  While the Kremlin denies it, several international reports hold that Russian President Vladimir Putin met Taliban leaders at a secret meeting in Tajikistan in December 2015.
  
  
  Part of solution
  Unlike India and Afghanistan, which believe Pakistan is part of the problem, and voiced their concerns at the Moscow conference, Russia and China believe it is part of the solution. After decades of shunning military ties with Pakistan, Moscow has doubled down on increasing engagement with Rawalpindi.
  
  In 2016, Russian forces held their first military exercises with Pakistan, Pakistan’s military signed up for Mi-35 helicopters from Russia, and according to reports, the Pakistan Air Force signed an agreement with Russia’s Rosoboronexport for the refurbishment of its fleet of Ilyushin Il-78 air-to-air refuelling tanker aircraft originally procured from Ukraine. The new ties won’t put a dent in traditional Russia-India defence ties worth billions, but they add to the strain in them, given India has pulled away closer to Washington for military procurement.
  
  China is already engaged deeply with Pakistan’s security establishment, and its $51-billion investment in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) depends on it. For the past few years, China has been investing in Afghanistan. Last year, a high-level Taliban delegation from Qatar visited Beijing for talks, and China has emerged as an important interlocutor in the peace process. China has also played a role in nudging Moscow towards Pakistan in search of a solution for Afghanistan’s conflict.
  
  
  Shia-Sunni faultline
  That leaves Iran, which is often seen to be a silent stakeholder in Afghanistan security, given the Shia-Sunni faultline. Furthermore, Iran is keen on connecting the CPEC with its own initiatives on the Chabahar port and the International North-South Transport Corridor. Iran and India have cooperated on these as well, but the impending storm from the U.S., where President Donald Trump appears to be preparing for a tough line on Iran, could push New Delhi and Tehran apart. Mr. Trump is yet to spell out his plans for troops in Afghanistan and amid all the confusing signals out of Washington, Russia’s new confidence in planning Afghanistan’s future following its own recent successes in the Syrian conflict denotes a desire to undermine American presence.
  
  For India, each of these signals is being viewed very closely, especially given its own stakes in Afghanistan, where it has both development projects and a strategic partnership. National Security Adviser Ajit Doval made a special trip to Moscow in January, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend a conference in St. Petersburg later this year, where regional security issues will be prominent. After all, a shift in the centre of gravity from the West to Eurasia and Washington to Moscow on Afghanistan’s future could set off major tremors in the Indian subcontinent as well, along the bitter faultlines between India and Pakistan.
  
• http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/moscow-takes-the-lead-on-afghanistan/article17326762.ece

 

[Mikesingh]

Russians withdrew from Afghanistan thanks to the Talibs and their Paki sponsors and now they're back! We've come full circle....back to the 80s as Russia and the US start a new great power game in Afghanistan.

And sandwiched between the two would be India. Whose side will she be on? It would be a tightrope walk ahead where our diplomacy and geostrategy will be put to test.

 

[Butter Chicken]

Don't worry,we will buy some frigates outright from Russia

 

[Kshatriya87]

Russians withdrew from Afghanistan thanks to the Talibs and their Paki sponsors and now they're back! We've come full circle....back to the 80s as Russia and the US start a new great power game in Afghanistan.

And sandwiched between the two would be India. Whose side will she be on? It would be a tightrope walk ahead where our diplomacy and geostrategy will be put to test.

India and afghanistan are on 1 side. Russia, paki and china are on the other. India wants to maintain the current government there. It helps us in keeping pakis locked in from 2 sides.

Russia wants the taliban (which according to pakis is "good taliban") to rule. This helps paki cause. Indian intelligence won't exist there anymore. Russia wants taliban to keep the ISIS out. China just wants to suppress INdia and support pakis.

 

[Srinivas_K]

India and afghanistan are on 1 side. Russia, paki and china are on the other. India wants to maintain the current government there. It helps us in keeping pakis locked in from 2 sides.

Russia wants the taliban (which according to pakis is "good taliban") to rule. This helps paki cause. Indian intelligence won't exist there anymore. Russia wants taliban to keep the ISIS out. China just wants to suppress INdia and support pakis.

The main driver behind this meet is China.

 

[Kshatriya87]

The main driver behind this meet is China.

Since when did Russia start to listen to china.


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