Keeping India's Connect With The Afghan People

India is deepening the engagement with Afghanistan without endorsing the current Taliban regime, says Sushant Sareen, well known Af-Pak commentator in an interview with StratNews Global. It explains the recent visit by a high level Indian delegation headed by JP Singh, chief of the External Affairs Ministry's PAI (Pakistan-Afghanistan-Iran) Division. It's important to note that India is deepening the engagement at a time when Kabul's ties with Islamabad have worsened with the two sides exchanging fire along the Durand Line.
For India, says Sareen, many of the Taliban's practices are abhorrent, notably their treatment of women, lack of respect for education, and their attitude towards minorities. But these are not deal breakers. "It underscores the point that India will deal with whichever government is in power in Kabul," he says.
It flows from the determination that India has a long and deep association with the Afghan people, and at all costs everything must be done that ensures the connection remains and to the people's benefit. So humanitarian supplies continue to flow. Education for women is an issue given how the Taliban sees it but an alternative being worked on is online courses. Of course that presumes internet connectivity is available throughout Afghanistan, but India has to work within these constraints.
India has long seen the Taliban as a terrorist outfit, a Pakistani proxy. Has that changed? India is well aware of the Taliban's origins in Pakistan's madarsas but equally, the Taliban has also rejected Islamabad's attempts to control and direct them. The fact that the two sides are now exchanging fire across the Durand Line suggests a significant breakdown in their relationship.
Given the equation 'enemy's enemy is my friend', it makes sense for India to deepen its engagement with the Taliban without breaking the international consensus on giving it no international legitimacy. The Taliban are also willing to play this game, and in that sense, are following the practice of previous Afghan governments, that regardless of ideological orientation, always turned to India to balance off Pakistan.
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[@ShivamSahuIndia]

Awesome discussion

[@ululukululu450]

Hindi-Afghani bhai bhai.
🇮🇳♥️🇦🇫
All Afghan brothers and sisters are welcome to live in india. Sabka Saath, Sabka Bikas.

[@tejamysore3699]

I see Sushant Sareen, I hit like 👍 Simple!

[@gbhatia9809]

US has suddenly become too soft on Pakistan despite getting humiliating defeat in Afghanistan because of Pakistani double-games. Gen Asim Munir was in US for unusually long 8-9 days & Ukraine War promoter Victoria Nuland had met Asim Munir.
The US is badly stuck up in Ukraine & Hamas wars. Pakistan is training IS-KP to subdue Taliban. That comes handy to the US too.
Belligerent Iran whose Houthis have kept US on tenterhooks in the Red Sea was taught lesson through IS-KP attack on mourners at Qasem Soleimani’s grave & now Russia has faced IS-KP's horrendous terrorist attack near Moscow. Zelensky publicized induction of Tartars in his army, the original inhabitants of Crimea to incite Muslim claim on the territory.
With dollars overflowing into Pakistan in tandem with Pakistan helping US complete its covert tasks, India must be be careful as Pakistan can divert IS-KP against India too & the US would look the other way. The US has upgraded Pakistan's F16s which may add to Pakistani belligerence.
The best bet for India is to see that Afghanistan's maximum trade flows through Chabahar with India's support and Taliban & Baloch complete their task of bifurcating Pakistan as advocated by Ralph Peters. Keeping Pakistan fully locked in its West would be good for India.

[@knottytoob]

Thank you for that concise summary. Cogent and informative.

[@effendi77]

Exactly. The source of the trouble is ISIS-K, which was promoted by the US a counterweight to Taliban and to destabilise the entire Central Asia as well as Eurasia..

[@subhaysinghpooniya4662]

Great insight ❤ thankyou

[@orangelays5084]

loved the show, learnt a lot

[@sabeelaahs4411]

This is true for indian subcontinent.matter of time

[@rememberrohit]

Sushant is no non sense thinker. I prefer that way of thinking.. Reminds me of first principles thinking in physical sciences. The highbrow, tea sipping ties blowing hard about diplomacy and dealing in cliches cannot deliver the punch Sushant, Gaurav and Abhijit can.
Glad Stratsnewsglabal found him worth talking to. 🎉

[@whocareswhoami7278]

Insia should team up with Afghanistan and help liberate KPK from Pakistan.

[@iXpress]

Some good points but Sushant was highly rash & dismissive about CPEC, it's not successful but not a total failure either. As an Indian I think many of our 'experts' have become arrogant & take the neighbour less seriously, big mistake

[@ashishchhabra4153]

What are the CPEC gains?

[@adolft_official]

loudmouths think of superpower with 800 millions living on free ration

[@iXpress]

@@adolft_official you are always jealous of our free ration 😅

[@siddarthshah1773]

@@adolft_officialwell that was given during covid.. but once you give afeem to ppl in DEAMONcracy its hard to take out..

[@siddarthshah1773]

Dis oversmart sandaazchaap comenters should learn first costing first😂 how can you comment randomly about anything.. learn costing first then learn shipping works .. for cpec to work india needs to be part of cpec..the reason china did ladakh border is bcoz we romoved ourselves from RCEP and we played both usa and china where usa promised us for the high end manufacturing as well as military tech transfer for being their ally(quad).. first real geoeconomics dimwitt..learn how power politics works.. the evergrande crisis didnt happened bcoz of some mismanagement but it happened coz europe and india ditched china.. thats why the who huawaei issue happened(which was faked to the public) coz they dont understand nuances eg: look at you😂

[@oneworld633]

Elefant in Room China backdoor deplomacy ( lalach ,debt trap master, Bharat hatred sprader , ISI mini Elefant!!!

[@4justice002]

Don't worry. Neither are Afghans endorsing BJP fascists. They are also only engaging.

[@mohsinkamal2236]

Sushant Singh yah to bade afsos ki baat hai jindagi bhar Jin ko gali Diya aatankwadi ka aadami ke charanon mein

[@SaurabhSingh-zv1kf]

Your enemy's enemy is friends.

[@MithileshJha-pi4ul]

Afghanistan and India share historic ethnic roots.