India Ponders Future Role in Afghanistan

[Vikrant]

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Afghan Saeed Abdullah has seen the tight Afghan-Indian relationship up close. The Herat resident, in India for his father’s surgery, saw firsthand the benefits of Indian investment in Afghanistan as a worker on the 218-km long Delaram-Zaranj highway in Nimroz province - a $150 million project funded by India.

“It was three years ago. I worked with them [India] and they built a road and it was very good," he recalled. "And they have invested so much money, I have seen.”

India has provided more than $2 billion in development aid to Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban in 2001. Analysts here in New Delhi say this kind of assistance and investment should continue not only to ensure a stable Afghanistan, but to ensure a stable region.

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India Ponders Future Role in Afghanistan

 

[georgephillip]

How likely is it that nuclear-armed Pakistan will remain indifferent to an Indian presence in Afghanistan after the US leaves next year?

"After the dissolution of the British Raj in 1947, two new sovereign nations were formed—the Union of India and the Dominion of Pakistan.

"The subsequent partition of the former British India displaced up to 12.5 million people, with estimates of loss of life varying from several hundred thousand to a million.[1]

"India emerged as a secular nation with a Hindu majority population and a large Muslim minority while Pakistan was established as an Islamic republic with an overwhelming Muslim majority population.[2][3]"

India?Pakistan relations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[irosie91]

How likely is it that nuclear-armed Pakistan will remain indifferent to an Indian presence in Afghanistan after the US leaves next year?

"After the dissolution of the British Raj in 1947, two new sovereign nations were formed—the Union of India and the Dominion of Pakistan.

"The subsequent partition of the former British India displaced up to 12.5 million people, with estimates of loss of life varying from several hundred thousand to a million.[1]

"India emerged as a secular nation with a Hindu majority population and a large Muslim minority while Pakistan was established as an Islamic republic with an overwhelming Muslim majority population.[2][3]"

India?Pakistan relations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You highlight a very unfortunate reality------Afghanistan is only lately MUSLIM LAND----
There was a time when it had considerable Hindu populations, and----buddhist,
christian and jewish.. Who would feel threatened by an INDIAN PRESENCE?
----anyone who wishes to make Afghanistan that which the taliban and friend
Osama bin Laden wanted--------a MUSLIM CALIPHATE ---far east cradle of
islamic terrorism Who would be glad? Anyone who knows that Afghanistan--
was---long ago-------culturally diverse and even CIVILIZED ---Kabul was---
long ago----a CULTURAL CENTER in that area of the world. ------now it is a toilet

It could use a nice zoroastrian population, too. -----if only~~~~~~

 

[bianco]

India to take over Afghanistan?
Wonderful news.

Indian students could then go study in Afghanistan instead of Australia, and as a result there'd be more jobs available in Australia for Australians.