Bharat Rakshak

Even if India/US/ISAF were to succeed in creating a modern westfalian state out of the mess in Afghanistan, who will it be aligned to. A sunni Iran or at best a secular Turkey. So who are these countries aligned to? India is doing something similar in Afghanistan to what US did in Iraq. Topple Sadda...

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US is starting a whisper campaign against Ghani because Pakistan wants him gone, and he has become too India-friendly, like Karzai was before the US forced his removal (and rigged the election rules to ensure that Karzai's protege lost the election). Your statements are getting weirder by the day. ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/12/world/asia/afghanistan-ashraf-ghani-elections.html Afghan President Under Fire as Critics Chafe at Overdue Vote Ground is slipping from under Ghani`s feet. That may not be an entirely bad thing. India needs to stay deeply engaged there. Afghanistan is heading for a...

https://www.dawn.com/news/1376231/in-cpec-talks-chinese-drive-a-hard-bargain-with-pakistan In CPEC talks, Chinese drive a hard bargain with Pakistan This is a misleading title for the piece. Basically the chinese are seeking assurance on their returns and practical expectations. Pakistanis are askin...

https://www.khaama.com/raid-on-afghan-t ... uror-04017

Raid on Afghan-Turk high school in Kabul sparks furor

The Pashtun lands in Afghanistan can be divided into three major regions, not based on administrative division but based on tribal connections, geographical cohesion and social ties: Loy Nangarhar, LoyaPaktia and Loy Kandahar (Loy and Loya mean greater). How the Afghan Jihad unraveled in these three...

1. Not all Pashtuns are pak-pasand. Not anymore. The Tehreek-e-Taliban is pashtun and anti-pak. It has now morphed into ISIS together with Orakzai agency pashtuns. The ISIS vs Taliban fight is basically a Pashtun civil-war about who is more islamic and whether to prioritize sharia implementation and...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2017/12/07/its-time-for-the-west-to-get-tough-on-ukraine/?__twitter_impression=true&utm_term=.d4faa7c98cb2 But at the very moment when anti-corruption officials have really started to tackle the problem, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko i...

The strength of Afghan special forces will be doubled. Thats what US, India and Afghanistan are working on.
We need some kind of ethnic make up in the forces to know what is happening on ground. This info is hard to come by.

You are arguing with yourself because I have not made any claims about USA using Iran as a transit route -- my quote to which you are responding to does not make any such claim. No, but you did declare US/Iran becoming chummies in some near future. And we were discussing Afghanistan. How else could...

Obama regime had a deal going with Iran, so it is not impossible at all. US is already using all the IMF/world bank clout against pakistan, without results so. India already has an india-supporting constituency in Afghanisthan. Just go back a few pages on this very thread and catch up with Afghanis...

what is strategic about trade? It provides space for aligning interests between trading partners -- more trade allows establishing a larger footprint/presence in the trading partner's territory. US and NATO and their wishes are not relevant -- they have ignored India and its Afghan interests even b...

US mending ties with Iran to the point of using it as transit is impossible. US using IMF/world bank to bend Pakistan for some more years n staying put in Afghanistan is what India would be hoping for. In that period, India may need to create an India supporting constituency in Afghanistan. In the l...

When I say "front", it is in the strategic sense -- pakistan has been bypassed in India's afghan policy. Now India gets to trade with Afghanisthan without US/NATO and Pakistani support. Pakistan has been bypassed for trade and Iran has been added to the list. Besides, what is strategic ab...

Folks who are spreading FUD about US "leverage" on India to talk to pakistan are just repeating some US/paki leaning source of information. Insinuating that others have hidden motivations is poor argument on your part. Link and source are given in the article. You are welcome to refute wh...

India has opened a front in Chahbahar which is in Iran, a country that the current US regime will not do business with. India has managed to open a trading post in Chabahar, not a front. US has turned a blind eye to it. Not opposed. Rest is literary laffaaji. https://swarajyamag.com/insta/us-signal...

A year ago. For reference http://www.khaama.com/all-unquiet-on-the-tajik-afghan-frontier-4736 he Russian 201st Division has remained stationed in Tajikistan since the 1991 collapse of the U.S.S.R. and, as recently as late 2015, Russian military officials spoke about augmenting its forces there. Howe...

India had already lost everything in Afghanistan when Taliban took over and controlled 95% of Afghan territory. India has only Osama bin Laden to thank for whatever little `leverage`, if any, it has in Afghanistan today. India gave away PoK which severed last direct land link it could have with Afgh...

The growing population in Afpak is unmanageable. If US and/or India fail to create pockets of influence inside Pakistan/ Afghanistan, the region will be lost to islamists. No amount of force or economic assistance can stop the tide. India needs to separate Baluchistan from Pakistan. And perhaps also...