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India to send commandos to Afghanistan
This’ll spin up those Pak turbans. EFL:
India is to send crack commandos to protect Indian installations in Afghanistan, days after two Indian road workers were kidnapped by Taliban militia. The Hindustan Times daily said Indo-Tibetan Border Police units were being sent to the Indian consulate at Kandahar after India’s joint secretary for security in Afghanistan, BC Katoch, gave an assessment report "on the grave security risks".
It's kinda cute to watch those Paks' heads spin around like that, isn't it?
The Indian road workers were kidnapped in Zabul province on Saturday on the highway between Kabul and the main southern city of Kandahar. A spokesman for Pakistan the ousted Taliban militia said they were likely to kill the two road workers "because they suspected them of being intelligence agents".
Must be those Indian intelligence agents organizing Afghans to attack Pakistan we keep hearing about.
Afghan officials said the pair were kidnapped after shopping with Afghan colleagues in Bazargan village, five kilometres from the highway near Shahjoy. Three men armed with machineguns stopped their car, let the Afghans go and made off with the Indians and the car.
Might be held for ransom if they were taken by Afghans, if they were grabbed by Pak Taliban, they are dead.
Some 700 to 800 semi-skilled Indian workers are currently in Afghanistan with private companies, including a tiny number of highly-skilled professionals such as Special Forces doctors and engineers, the paper said. India has been in the forefront of reconstruction work in Afghanistan since the Taliban was dislodged from power following the US global campaign against terrorism after September 2001. India has already given 274 buses, three Airbus aircraft, has pledged $70 million for construction of a road and has donated one million tonnes of wheat.
Didn’t know that.
"The kidnapping of the two Indians is a signal to India from the Taliban and the pro-Pakistan lobby," former Indian special envoy to Afghanistan, S K Lambah said. "They want to discourage our people from going and working there," he added.
Yup, that sounds about right.
Posted by: Steve 2003-12-11
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=22557