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2005-10-31 Afghanistan-Pak-India

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-10-31 00:11|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 realpolitik: India pre..post 9/11

For fifty years the two countries regarded each other with extraordinary wariness. However, the end of the Cold War, the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the opening of Indiaâs economy, globalization, the revolution in information technologies, increasing economic interdependence, Indiaâs acquisition of nuclear weapons, and the war on terror seem to set a new world stage upon which to reappraise the relationship.

Early in 2004 former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee declared the two countries to be ânatural alliesâ..[snip]..On the American side, President Bush defined the relationship as one of âstrategic alliesâ..
LINKY: Pratab Bhanu Mehta
AL QAEDA & INDIA B Raman
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3. The Taliban and its leaders too had generally refrained from criticising India. However, Gulbuddin Heckmatyar's Hizbe Islami (HEI), which is collaborating with the Al Qaeda and the Taliban in their present offensive against the American and Afghan troops, has always been virulently critical of India and supportive of anti-India terrorist groups operating in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K). The HEI, which is close to the Jamaat-e-Islami (JEI) of Pakistan led by Qazi Hussain Ahmed, had before 9/11 trained many cadres of the Hizbul Mujahideen headed by Syed Salahuddin in its training camps in Afghan territory.

4. Before 9/11, the Taliban, which was then in power in Afghanistan , and the HEI were at daggers drawn with each other. The Taliban had forced the HEI and the Hizbul Mujahideen to close down their training camps in Afghan territory. Heckmatyar and his cadres were forced to cross over into Iran and take shelter there.

5.After 9/11, under pressure exercised by the US, the Government of Iran ordered Heckmatyar and his cadres to leave Iran. They moved over into the Balochistan area of Pakistan where they were given sanctuary by the the JEI, with the complicity of Pakistan's Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI). Heckmatyar and Mulla Mohammad Omar, the Amir of the Taliban, who is also presently based in Balochistan, decided
to forget their past differences and fight unitedly against the US and Afghan troops in Afghanistan.

MR.OSAMA, ARE YOU OK? B Raman taunts OSAMA bin Lurkin (24/10/2005)
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About India etc. the more I know the less...

B Raman is a patriot of India..I always keep in mind though, that he spent most of his professional career while India was a close ally of the USSR and Russia. An alliance with a neutrality wrapping.

Posted by Red Dog 2005-10-31 05:33|| 2005-10-31 05:33|| Front Page Top

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