{"id":117695,"date":"2021-08-31T16:04:52","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T23:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=117695"},"modified":"2021-08-31T16:04:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T23:04:52","slug":"afghanistan-new-match-new-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/08\/31\/afghanistan-new-match-new-team\/","title":{"rendered":"AFGHANISTAN-NEW MATCH NEW TEAM"},"content":{"rendered":"

ALI SUKHANVER<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

 Days after the fall of Kabul, nations are\nhurriedly evacuating their diplomats and citizens, leaving behind two decades\nof work and investments. The Taliban’s blisteringly fast takeover of\nAfghanistan has stunned security and diplomacy experts worldwide\u201d Vikas Pandey\nof BBC News Delhi said in a recent article. He further said, Pakistan and\nChina – both are expected to play a crucial role in Afghanistan’s future.\u201d As\nfar as the matter of investment is concerned, India had been the fifth-largest\naid donor and one of the most effective suppliers of technical support to the\ndevelopment projects running in Afghanistan. Unwillingly, the United States had\nto keep India out of almost all political negotiations over Afghanistan in\nspite of India\u2019s very effective role as an investor. Experts are of the opinion\nthat keeping India out of the dialogue-process was simply because of Pakistan\u2019s\nstrenuous objections on India. India\u2019s absence was also noticed during the recent\nTroika Plus talks this month, these talks were attended by China, Pakistan,\nRussia and the United States. It seems that the US authorities knew well that\nIndia\u2019s presence to the talks would do nothing but distort the peace-process\nthat is why India was not given the \u2018due\u2019 importance in negotiation process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A\ncolumnist at Foreign Policy, Sumit Ganguly has also pointed towards the same\nsituation in his recent write up. He said, \u2018The crisis following the U.S.\nwithdrawal leaves India\u2019s foreign-policy and security interests at considerable\nrisk on two fronts. First, a new Taliban government will likely foster safe\nhavens for anti-Indian terrorist organizations and other groups that could sow\nchaos in Indian-administered Kashmir. Meanwhile, China\u2019s willingness to work\nwith the Taliban could expand its footprint in the region.\u201d In short things are\nnot good for India in new Afghanistan as all its investment is expected to go\nwaste. The India Today published an article of Koustav Das on 18th<\/sup>\nof August 2021. The writer said, The return of the Taliban could mark the\nbeginning of another dark era for Afghanistan with uncertainty prevailing about\nthe country\u2019s economic progress and its ties with the rest of the world,\nparticularly with those countries which have invested heavily in Afghanistan. India\nis one such country. It has helped Afghanistan in all aspects of\nnation-building over the past two decades when the US-NATO forces provided a\nshield against the Taliban and other fundamentalist forces. Given the\nsituation, it remains unclear how India will maintain diplomatic ties with a\ngovernment controlled by the militant group. The Taliban rule could disrupt\nIndia\u2019s friendly ties with Afghanistan and subsequently its strategic\ninvestments in the war-torn country.\u201d In short, India will have to struggle\nvery hard to save her heavy-investments in Afghanistan; and that won\u2019t be\npossible unless expected peace in Afghanistan is attacked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking\nat the present Afghan scenario, one could very easily estimate that in the days\nto come there could only be two possibilities; either Afghanistan would turn\ninto a very strong country or it would change into a more horrible wasteland.\nIf the Taliban succeed in keeping all stake-holders united and disarming all militant\ngroups by dragging them into the main stream, the world would soon find\nAfghanistan standing at a very decisive position, having a very cordial\nrelationship with the neighboring countries and dealing wisely with all\nnational and international forces. In that case, the importance rather need of\nIndia as an investor would be minimized to zero. So India would do all her best\nto patronize and strengthen the groups which are inwardly not in favour of the\nTaliban supremacy. The first step in this regard is the recent propaganda done\nby the Indian sponsored media groups against Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai who had\nbeen a deputy foreign minister in the last Taliban regime. At present he is an expected\nkey player in the new government in Afghanistan. Stanikzai alias Sheru had been\nunder training at 982 batch of the Indian Military Academy in Dehradun for the\ncompletion of pre-commission training for a year and a half before joining the\nAfghan National Army as a lieutenant. Those were the days just after\nAfghanistan was overrun by the Soviet Union. Now the Indian media is trying to\nspread an impression that Sheru would prove himself a very strong caretaker of\nthe Indian interests in Afghanistan. That is nothing but an attempt to create misunderstandings\namong different Afghan leaders. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indian\nagents in Afghanistan would also be in contact with the handful of miscreants\nwho are not happy with the present Taliban regime. Their joint venture might\nbring some \u2018disaster\u2019 of a very minute and temporary level which would\ncertainly not be challenging or threatening to the Taliban. It is need of the\ntime that the Taliban must introduce to the world a moderate picture of the New\nAge Taliban. They must try to keep people united by assuring to them all basic\nhuman rights. Moreover they must not allow any country to interfere into\nAfghanistan\u2019s internal matters. The Taliban must be thankful to God that He\nblessed them with such a matchless victory over world\u2019s so-called super-power;\nnow their real success lies in giving this victory an eternal colour with the\nhelp of their wisdom, intelligence and patience. It is also a point to be kept\nin mind that their victory would never be \u2018digestible\u2019 to the countries like\nIndia. Such countries would do all their best to distort the dreamed of\npeaceful and prosperous face of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ALI SUKHANVER  Days after the fall of Kabul, nations are hurriedly evacuating their diplomats and citizens, leaving behind two decades of work and investments. The Taliban’s blisteringly fast takeover of Afghanistan has stunned security and diplomacy experts worldwide\u201d Vikas Pandey of BBC News Delhi said in a recent article. He further said, Pakistan and China […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ali-sukhanver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}