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^ Who is Khan? Anyway, the point is that India cannot provide enough to its own people and vows to help build other nations. It is comical.
Expatobserver, I can care less who they love and hate. I was stating my opinion regarding the matter. Why dont you ask your loving Afghans to move to India and I will see how long that "love relationship" lasts.
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Indian assistance is much more than that of its subcontinental foe, Pakistan, and has been wisely invested in projects that are visible and would benefit the Afghan people. Some of the projects include the rebuilding of the famous Habibia High School in Kabul, the construction of the Afghan Parliament building, and laying a new metalled road from Delaram to Zaranj in southwestern Afghanistan and linking it with Zahidan and Iran’s Chahbahar seaport.
After having wasted much of its money all these past years on thankless and blood-thirsty Afghan warlords, Islamabad has only recently started to sponsor projects beneficial to the common Afghans. It is now building much-needed schools, hospitals and university faculties. Islamabad is also constructing the Torkham-Jalalabad road, which has been delayed on account of bureaucratic red-tape and inefficiency of the Pakistani contractors. Compared to India, Pakistan’s contribution to Afghanistan’s rebuilding is a case of too late, too little.
Mr Karzai has had old ties to India. He received some of his education in India, specifically in the Simla hill-station. In fact, this visit contained a two-day retreat to Simla to enable the Afghan President to relive his student days. However, the trip to Simla was cancelled and the Indian visit cut short to four days due to President Karzai’s preoccupations back home. Like most Third World rulers, he would have loved to spend some time away from his violence-prone country, particularly his embattled capital, Kabul, which suffered a rocket attack that targeted the Presidential palace while its occupant was visiting India.
The Indian government as usual did its best to fete and befriend President Karzai and the dozen or so ministers accompanying him. Apart from New Delhi, he was taken to the hi-tech Hyderabad city to see with his own eyes the IT revolution that India is presently undergoing. Meetings with representatives of top Indian software companies, Tata Consultancy and the state-owned National Remote Sensing Agency, and the crème de la crème of India’s flourishing IT industry were arranged. The result was that Mr Karzai profusely praised India’s achievements in science and asked Indian companies to invest in Afghanistan. The outcome showed that it wasn’t difficult for the Indians to charm the Afghan President and create more openings for Indian IT firms in Afghanistan.
President Karzai was also taken to the National Institute of Rural Development in Hyderabad. The faculty at the institute showcased 42 quake-proof building technologies suitable for Afghanistan and impressed the Afghan visitor so much that he sought its application to his earthquake-prone country.
He was also floored by the concept of the Panchayati Raj system in vogue in India and invited Indian experts to help him extend it to Afghan villages. He was keen to adopt the Indian rural development techniques to empower Afghan villagers and make rural-related industries profitable. President Karzai not only asked his hosts to set up a similar rural development institute in Afghanistan but also put up a request for training 200 Afghans at the Indian centre.
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there are millions of homeless and impoverished people living on the streets in the US…how come we are donating billions in foreign aid every year before ensuring that every last one of them is taken care of?
why does this relationship infuriate pakistanis so badly?
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:-)... aap to bahut gussa ho gaye...
Yes India should feed its own, though we discussed somewhere else, that's a structural problem, rather than not having enough food. That's not the topic..
There are many Afghans' in India working in India and now refusing to go back..... We have same problme at different scale and different kind if immigrants............
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^^^because pakistan could end up left alone in between afghanistan and india 
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And India should not protect its self-interests to please a bunch of rabid India haters on GS?
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Look whos talking, a rabid-sharia-hater who mocks Sharia at any opportunity whether it exists or not 
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completely agree.....
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we indians, should stop calling or telling that some one loves us. we better not gratify ourselves with such statements. anything can happen. It's just a question of time.
Ofcourse....we should protect our interests. By interests, i mean economic interests. Not military. Military should be within indian territory.
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I think it would be foolish to underestimate the soft power of bollywood movies, espescially considering how us pakistanis are portrayed in them. Juxtaposed with the already ungrateful afghanis over our support for the righteous taliban, this can produce an extremely undesirable situation for pakistan. What the pakistani government has to do is spread propoganda about kashmir in afghanistan saying that hindu men are raping kashmiri muslim women everyday and that islam is being cleansed from their. The government should also patronize the elements in afghan polity that are more islamic in character. Also, the most important of all, we should create a sense of islam being attacked by hindus, christians and jews, hopefully resulting in an afghanistan that returns to the days of ghauri and abdali. Maybe its me being optimistic, but by chance they might even join us in spreading islam in the subcontinent. If these doesn't work I don't think this situation will favor pakistan in the future.
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SyedAbduallah]I think it would be foolish to underestimate the soft power of bollywood movies, espescially considering how us pakistanis are portrayed in them.
<< Finally some body understood the power of media, rather than just lambasting it. RangDeBasanti movie seems to have sowed seeds of people movement in India.>>
Juxtaposed with the already ungrateful afghanis over our support for the righteous taliban, this can produce an extremely undesirable situation for pakistan. What the pakistani government has to do is spread propoganda about kashmir in afghanistan saying that hindu men are raping kashmiri muslim women everyday and that islam is being cleansed from their. The government should also patronize the elements in afghan polity that are more islamic in character. Also, the most important of all, we should create a sense of islam being attacked by hindus, christians and jews, hopefully resulting in an afghanistan that returns to the days of ghauri and abdali. Maybe its me being optimistic, but by chance they might even join us in spreading islam in the subcontinent. If these doesn't work I don't think this situation will favor pakistan in the future.
<< Good, very good, excellent.... Here we will have India supporting Afghans, and more visits between two countries, and you will do propaganda......
Bhaisaab, if you believe that all the above is happenign... looking at enthusiasm of Kashimiris' in election, you seem to be wrong. Open your mind and just don't keep pushing yourself and Islam in more and more pain.
If you are saying above a propoganda, than its been happening and attempted for years and years by ISI, and your paronia about situation proves that it didn't work.... So how do you think it will work now.>>
Finally, Chankaya made rings of enemies and friends some 2000+ years ago in his book on international politics. That way Afghanistan and India will be friends. Pakistan has to look with for friends beyond India i.e Burma, and countries on other side of Afghanistan...
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Kaptaan saab, it hurts me to see you fritter away your life making inane comments. If Sharia is a such a good law, can you explain why Canadian Muslim Women’s council opposed it tooth and nail of its introduction in Ontario, all good muslimas those? Free muslimas anywhere in the world oppose it with one voice. Kaptaan saab, please please think just once, is it too much to ask Bhai jaan?
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^ expatobserver: There are tonnes of people around the world who oppose democracy, capitalism etc., does it mean that it is bad? There are people of all kinds who hate other systems due to various reasons, that would mean all legal systems in the world should be trashed and we should start living in a jungle? Think about that too. I hope you are not talking about the "good Muslimas" who appear on TV and say "I have nailed one of the 5 pillars down, 4 more to go" type of statements.
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Calm down Shah Ji. There are Kabuli Kommies who shall remain Bharati lackeys forever. The world outside Kabul is different and Bharati movies there will have as much impact on Khan sahib's shalwar as much as it impacts Chaudhri sahib's dhoti.
Afghanistan should have good relations with everyone including Bharat. So there is no problem.
Knowing Bharati habits based on daal-khori I suggest changing the name of this thread to *Bharati's flatulence in Afghanistan. *
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Isn't use of Bharati word banned by Mods... in this forum.........
or can other guppies use word "Pakis" as well...
Can somebody clarlify.....
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Rahul bhai, get it in your thick Indian head. antiobl is going to change his nick to vehementlyantiindia soon. Poor guy is incapable of writing a single word without hating India. Hate India is what anitiobl does 24/7.
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How typical of you Kaptaan saab. When confronted with facts, immediately call the muslim (or muslima in this case) with whom you do nopt agree as not pakka muslims. Your poverty of logical thinking jumps out of each and every one of your posts. Just how do you do it?
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I am absolutely fine with that buddy, that's why I turned to Mods. I am expecting them not to be as anti India as him........ :-)
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Word Bharati is for people who reside in Bharat. Check out the following sites before crying on the forum.
http://www.bhartitelesoft.com/
http://www.bharti-teletech.net/
Happy now?
p.s. As per the $tinking reaction of Bharatis, we should change the heading of this thread to “Bharati Flatulence in Afghanistan”.
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You don’t understand the context … that’s why you don’t see it…
Anyway let go… lets talk about the topic…