In important development Foreign Secretary of Foreign Interview with Foreign Interview with Foreign Interview with Foreign Affairs India has recently returned to the administration in Afghanistan in August 2021, and for the first high -level discussion between the two countries, Amir Khan, a Dubai’s Afghanistan counter part. I met Muttaki.
Some political analysts are speculated that India upgrades the level of diplomatic discussions with Afghan Taliban, which is a reaction to the newly discovered Bonomy of Pakistan with the caretaker’s caretaker’s caretaker, led by Muhammad Yunus. I am doing it.
Some people interpret their visits as New Delhi, which uses tension between Kabul and Islamabard.
Some analysts have been the world’s largest democracy since India has lost some of the influence in neighboring countries such as Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Maldives. He claimed that he was under pressure to renovate the image. There is a taker. This is why India upgraded the level of consultation.
This is a view of myopia of the relationship between India and Afghan, and has been adopted by ignorant people on the history of relationships between India and Afghanistan from a very distant era.
Indian -Afghanistan -related history
The relationship between India and Afghanistan dates back in history. The Hindu Shahi dynasty, which was established by Brahman’s Vizier’s Vizier, defeated the last Turkey King Lagatulman, the Kabul Valley and its surrounding areas, and the surrounding area of the surrounding area. I built the foundation.
North Gandala Brahman Shahis (meaning Cabul) There was a sincere relationship with the ancient Kashmir Hindu kingdom, the ruler of Calcota.
Peshawar (Pushkalavati), BALKH (BHAKRI), Kabul (Kapisa), and Pakti (Pakhtia) are part of the names that are clearly mentioned in Veda. The connection between India and North Gandala (meaning the Kabul Valley) was strengthened through Buddhist tools during the powerful Kushan Empire.
During the freedom of colonial rule in India, Afghanistan rulers often provided safe evacuation shelters to many Indian politicians facing Indian sedation. Khan Abdul Gafal Khan, known as Frontier Gandhi, was an enthusiastic Gandhi man who never accepted India’s split in 1947.
Development channel
After independence, India has effectively strengthened his heartfelt relationship with Afghanistan by opening a channel for the development of infrastructure in the land. India has invested more than $ 3 billion in Afghanistan’s development projects.
In April 2017, India pointed out that India was the largest regional donor to Afghanistan, the largest donor to Afghanistan, and more than $ 3 billion in the world, in April 2017. I did. India has built more than 200 schools, sponsored more than 1,000 scholarships, and hosts more than 16,000 Afghanistan students.
The relationship between Afghanistan and India was significantly boosted in 2011 when Afghanistan signed the first strategic partnership agreement since the Soviet Afghan War.
India’s contribution to Afghanistan’s development is very important. Officially, Salmadam, a friendship dam in Afghanistan and India, is a hydropower and irrigation dam project on the Hari River in the Chushti Shalif district in Herat.
Afghanistan’s cabinet has been renamed Salmadam to Afghanistan and Indian friendship dam, strengthening its relationship between the two countries. The hydroelectric power plant generates 42 MW electricity and irrizes 75,000 hectares of agricultural land. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and then President Afghan Ashraf Gabi opened the dam on June 4, 2016.
Delicate era
It is true that India interacted with the Taliban administration, with a deep commitment to human rights and democracy during the first task of the Taliban rule (1996-2001). Therefore, the relationship between the two countries had a stalemate.
India has closed his mission in Kabul, withdrew the labor in Afghanistan, and has stopped issuing a visa to Afghanistan.
The Indian Embassy was probably attacked and damaged several times, promoting the handler of Pakistan, a Taliban fighter. Despite these issues, India did not lose sight of the overall spectrum between the two countries in transactions with Afghanistan.
Change of perception
During the Taliban War between the United States and the NATO army, India maintained the distance from the struggle. However, after the U.S. military withdrew on August 5, 2021, after the Taliban was expelled, India felt that Afghan’s administration was a reality on the ground.
As a result, India was decided to be more practical in transactions with Taliban.
Eventually, Taliban was in power, but the U.S. and NATO army left ignorant, and the national units grown between the elected government surrendered to Taliban.
However, the world community, including India and the United Nations, has not recognized the Taliban administration. Nevertheless, many officials in many countries are quietly interacting with the Taliban leadership at various levels.
Even after the acquisition of Taliban, India sent 500,000 COVID-19 vaccine dosage to Afghanistan in January 2022 as humanitarian assistance. In February 2022, India sent 50 trucks carrying 2,500 mt wheat. In June 2022, India sent an emergency rescue support of 27 tons to Afghanistan in the aftermath of the 5.9 magnitude earthquake.
In February 2023, India announced 200 rupees to Afghanistan. In March 2023, India announced that it would send 20,000 tonnes of wheat to Afghanistan through the Iranian Chaba Halt Port. As of 2023, about 14,000 Afghanistan students were studying with scholarship support from various Indian institutions in India.
Importance of Misri-Muttaqi Talks
In a press release on January 8, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the India summarized a Misri-Muttaqi lecture. Afghanistan’s minister thanked the Indian leader for continuing to engage with Afghanistan and supported me.
Given the current need for development activities, India has decided to consider involving the development project in addition to the ongoing humanitarian support program.
In response to the needs of Afghanistan people, remember that India has decided to expand humanitarian support to Afghanistan. In the past, India has 50,000 mt wheat, 300 tons of drugs, 27 tons of earthquake relief assistance, 40,000 liters, 100 million polio doses, 1.5 million COVID-19 vaccines, 11,000 hygiene insects. We dispatched some cargo. A kit for a drug blast program, a 500 -unit winter clothing, and a 1.2 -ton stationery kit.
In response to Afghanistan’s demands, India provides more material support to the health sector and rehabilitate refugees. Both also discussed the cooperation of sports (cricket), which has been highly valued by the young generation of Afghanistan.
They also agree to promote the use of Chabaharu Port to support trade and commercial activities including Afghanistan’s humanitarian support.
Afghanistan emphasized the sensitivity to India’s security concerns. We agree that both sides continue to contact them and continue to contact regularly at various levels.
Conclusion
Taliban expressed thanks to the humanitarian support of Afghanistan in a statement issued the day after the “Minister of Foreign Affairs” in the Islamic Emirates (IEA), Afghan’s Islamic Emirates (IEA), by India’s Foreign Secretary of Foreign Affairs. did. They reported during the lecture that Iran’s Chaba Hall was discussed between both sides.
The two countries recognize the importance of Chabahar Port as a traffic link between India and Afghanistan. That means that India is no longer dependent on land links with Afghanistan via Pakistan.
India has developed the Chabahar Port to establish a connection between Afghanistan, but also to further move to Central Asia through a railway connection via the Turkmenistan -Iran border Salafs.
The next part of the Chabahal Project is the link between the roads and railways between Chabahar, Kabul, and Helmand Valley, and eventually connects Kabul and Ashkabado in Torque menistan.
Professor Kn Pandita (Padma SHRI) is a former director of the Central Asian Research Center at Kashmir University. This article contains the author’s personal opinion, and does not represent the policy/opinion/opinion of the Eurasian Times. The author can contact us by knp627 (at) gmail.com
