India to play role in Afghanistan

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so…is india planning to play the politics of indira gandhi’ days in the region…

India to play role in Afghanistan ‘with or without America’ - The Times of India

Amid talk of the US looking for a strategy to exit Afghanistan, India today made it clear that it would continue to play a role in the war-torn nation “with or without America” as it has crucial stakes in the stability of country on its periphery.

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LOL... What role do they expect to be playing exactly? Karzai is a corrupt tool, who cant leave is office for fear of being attacked. The rest of the country is a mess, with the Taliban looking far better in comparison.

India is going to step in and do what to change the situation?

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**History teaches us that it was the Afghans who have been for Centuries changing the political map of this territory that British called India................so it seems the present day Indians have finally figured out where all the Cowboys have been coming from.............:D **

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If you really want to go historical, until the advent of the islamic rulers, what is now Afghanistan was actually a very important border state that protected the Indian empires from invaders. They were all kingdoms then remember. Whne Islam came, it it injected the religious war and the fence turned enemy in a manner of speaking

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india is out of afghanistan.no role for it in this part of the world.it has been told to go and build slums and roads in nepal and burma with border it.

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^ okay. whatever rocks your boat

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I'd like to see this role. More anti-Pakistan subversion? Strengthening the RAW networks?

What is India's role in Afghanistan anyways? There is no cultural, religious linkages, nor is there a strategic value besides trying to rile up Pakistan's western borders.

So am I right? Indian role in Afghanistan is to use that country to destabilize Pakistan?

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^ no cultural links? it even features prominently in Indian epics. after the advent of Islam, it shares its primary religion with almost as many other muslims of India.India build Afghanistan's legislative building, highways....so yeah, I'd say India has been very good to Afghanistan.

To say India has no cultural ties with Afghanistan is not unlike saying Pakistan and India have no cultural links.

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You may not know this, but when Alexander the great invaded India and defeated the great king Porus, he did so with the help of tribal horsemen from Afghanistan.

Didnt really help India much that time...

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Oh please.

Every part of the world is mentioned in the Indian (actually Hindu) epics, so is it an Indian world? Hardly so.

Muslims in India are a minority, so it's a stretch to make up religious affinities based on that weak linkage. You're argument would fly when we are talking about the Hindu Kingdom of Nepal.

India's entrenchment through these building projects is nothing but to create a base to launch anti-Pakistan elements both within Afghanistan and towards Pakistan. Pakistan is Afghanistan's lifeline...let me re-stress that, LIFELINE, meaning that basic foodstuffs to advanced equipment are sent through us. By putting up Indira Gandhi Hospital in Kabul or building a pet project here or there means jack in the larger scheme of things.

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Pakistanis have far more in common with the Afghans then India. Although the Afghans would be loathed to admit this.

India only helped Afghans to undermine Pakistan. That is one of the reasons why Pakistan and Afghanistan have always been tense neighbors.
In fact, India has been playing the same game as all others have been. The British, the Russians, the Americans etc etc. India can pretend its role is benign, and selfless, but its as self serving as any other.

Indians have it easy, they dont have live next to these people. While Pakistan has to absorb Millions of refugees and take in all kinds of guns and drugs and terrorism emanating from Afghanistan, Indians simply wait it out as others do the difficult work, and come in as soon as they see an opening like parasites to leach of the carcass of that decrepit state we call Afghanistan.

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I could not have sad it better me self… two thumbs up! :k: :k:

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simply not true. show me where in an Indian epic Iceland and America are mentioned. Yours is simply a case of denial.

really? you would simply dismiss 150M or so muslims of India this simply, even though that is almost as many you have in Pakistan? It is not a stretch at all. Indian politics and policy are very heavily influenced by this large muslim population.Don't deny the obvious reality for the sake of an argument.

First of all, it is simply your imagination that India is engaging in anti-Pakistan activities from Afghanistan. You need that to support your denial that elements internal to Pakistan are causing terrorist havoc in Pakistan. IOW, yet another case of denial of reality because reality is too painful to handle.

Secondly, because of the geographic positioning, material has to be sent through Pakistan to Afghanistan - this is basic human right and do you really think Pakistan should USE it as a bargaining factor? That's exactly what they have been trying to do which expalins why Afghanistan hates you. If you are really a lifeline, why wouldn't you try and help them get on their feet as India trying to, instead of attempting to turn them into a 'strategic depth' resource?

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Looking at the posts here I am reminded of a saying - no good deed goes unpunished.

India is funding billions worth of projects in Afghanistan and instead of being appreciated for the good deed what do we see here? a number of you criticising India for helping the needy!

When you complain that you have to absorb refugees from Afghanistan, why don't you think a bit deeper and realize that if countries like India help pull Afghanistan out of the hole, you won't have to handle so many refugees? In other words India is indirectly helping Pakistan when it helps Afghanistan. Why is it so difficult to understand?

The only reason therefore Pakistan would object to India helping Afghanistan is that a strong well governed Kabul would mean defeat of the so called "strategic depth" goals of Islamabad.

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obama hazoor,

Zara history ko ziada he khench dia aap nain :D

FYI. History of Af-Pak-Ind doesn't start and stop with Ghauri or Ghazni or Abdali or some other warlord descending from the Hindu Kash mountains.

It goes way before Ghauri Ghazni etc. And it continues on after them.

anyone studying Af-Pak should know that 1800 started a new trend where Afghans were whooped and they all ran with their tails tucked you know where and disppeared through the khyber pass.

19th century consistently saw that Punjabis and Settled Pashtuns kick out the Afghan hoards from the area now part of the modern day Pak.

While Ranjit Singh built his empire, the Brits were using Sindh and Balochistan to play a great game in AFghanistan.

The great game then changed the era of Afghans-deciding-the fate of Indian kings,

And reversed it.

and then Indian subcontinent based kings started changing the warlords in Afghanistan.

And the process continues till today.

Sure there were some moments where Brits or British-Indian troops suffered loss of life in few skirmishes.

But overall Afghanistan was the loser in every which way. Even the name Afghanistan is all thanks to the Brits.

Afghans now are a collection of populace hardly more than a couple of cities of Pakistan.

They are tribal mostly and have no industry whatsoever to support a sustained war on Pakistan let alone on India.

The so-called genie of Afghan warlords is proverbially back in the bottle that constantly gets banged by every tom dick and anwar.

Karazai, Mullah omer, Gul-badan flower body are all little pawns and puppets in the hands of ISI, CIA, and RAW etc.

Those good ole glory days that you talk about are gone, long long gone.

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If you want to help the needy then why dont you take 2 Million or so of their refugees while our building their highways.... Your building roads is worthless because as soon as they get a chance, they will destroy them again. And lets be honest, India is hardly the giving type...

Countries like India are the problem my friend. IF countries like India weren't overly involved in Afghanistan, they may not be the mess they are today.

The reason why Pakistan objects to a hostile regime in Kabul is because Afghansitan has traditionaly been hostile towards Pakistan for reasons not of Paks making.
Allowing a hostile regime in Afghanistan, that allows Indians in roads to our Western border, that is a strategic blunder in the making.

I dont understand why this is so difficult for you Indians to understand. We dont want our enemy surrounding us. That logical is it not?!?!
Indian motives are hardly benign. You may think your country is harmless, but Pakistanis dont.

Whats amazing is how Indians are never there to do any of the real work required to fix the country. Another words, fighting those trying to destabalize it, or even help the Millions that are displaced, but your always there to pick up the pieces as soon as you see a chance. Why werent you this charitable when the Afghans were being driven from their homes by the thousands?

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India can play whatever role it wishes to play. But it has lost its importance over the past few months. They can't regain that.

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I don't know if there are any cricket stadiums in Afghanistan... if yes, then India can play with newly formed Afghani Cricket Team...

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LMAO!

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it was chanakkya policy....that my neighbor is my enemy and his neighbor is my friend....was well adopted and executed by indira gandhi....