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| Karzai gives India military equipment 'wish list' |
| 2013-05-24 |
[Pak Daily Times] Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... said on Wednesday he had given a "wish list" of military equipment to India during a visit this week, presenting a conundrum for New Delhi as it weighs whether arming the Afghan army is in its interests. India wants to stabilise Afghanistan and is concerned about the resurgence of bad boy groups after foreign combat troops leave in 2014. But arming Afghanistan would alarm Pakistain. It takes issue with the influence of its old rival in Afghanistan. India does not want to get drawn into a proxy war with Pakistain, which has ties to the Taliban. India and Afghanistan signed a strategic partnership agreement in 2011 under which New Delhi agreed to assist in the training and equipping of Afghan cops. India has trained Afghan security force personnel in its military academies, but it has provided little military equipment, according to Indian officials. India's Afghan strategy has centred on boosting its influence through economic reconstruction projects. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 a small push of weapons to Afghanistan is a force-multiplier against the Paks. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2013-05-24 14:23 |
| #2 India needs to pay for its own equipment wish list before thinking of anybody else's. The Chinese already outspend them 4 to 1, mainly because the Chinese economy is 4x the Indian one. No reason to make the gap any bigger. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2013-05-24 14:06 |
| #1 Pashtuk is synonym with Tally Ban... Incredible that India would fall for this Pashtuk crap! |
| Posted by: Pliny the Cheap6130 2013-05-24 10:12 |