Afghanistan: Why was India attacked in Kabul?

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Afghanistan: Why was India attacked in Kabul?

Posted on 08 July 2008. Tags: Embassy, India, Kabul attack

There are many reasons the Indian “embassy” was targeted. There is evidence that it was not an embassy, more of a military base.

Indian Consulates spreading terror across borders

India intelligence: “‘the aim of RAW is to keep internal disturbances flaring up and the ISI preoccupied so that Pakistan can lend no worthwhile resistance to Indian designs in the region.”

To get to the bottom of the picture let us investigate the extent of the game played by India in Afghanistan. India is deeply involved in Afghanistan with troops and construction projects that isolate Pakistan and build direct links to Kabul. The Afghans despise the Indians because of New Delhi’s links to the Northern Alliance and her support for the USSR and now to ISAF.

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US attack over Afghanistan in 2001 provided a big opening to RAW to accomplish its objectives of destabilizing Pakistan. Since 9/11, Indian influence has increased tremendously. RAW has established Consulates and Trade Missions along the Pak-Afghan border to destabilize Balochistan and North West Frontier Province (NWFP).

Several agents of RAW captured in FATA, Waziristan, and other Southern Eastern areas provided that Indians had managed to penetrate deeply in collaboration with Indian allies in the region. As per media reports, recently a spy had been killed by Taliban in Afghanistan. Reportedly that spy disclosed that an Indian intelligence official named C. R. Garg working as Attaché and PS to Indian ambassador had offered as much as US $ 2000-3000 per foreigner killed in Pakistan. The world perception particularly US authorities have strongly being changed now that RAW and some other Indian intelligence agencies have been the only source of terrorism in Pakistan. India intelligence: The other aim of RAW is to keep internal disturbances flaring up and the ISI preoccupied so that Pakistan can lend no worthwhile resistance to Indian designs in the region.

According to the leading media reporters on world’s intelligence have disclosed that RAW and the Israeli spy agency Mossad have created five new agencies to infiltrate Pakistan to target important religious and military personalities, journalists, judges, lawyers and bureaucrats. In addition, bombs would be exploded in trains, railway stations, bridges, bus stations, cinemas, hotels and mosques of rival Islamic sects to incite sectarianism. Black Cats group is one of the main implementing tools of said subversive actions.

Hindu Dharma Raksha Samiti (HDRS), Bajrang Dal (BD) Rashtria Sawayamsevak Sankh (RSS) Shiv Sena (SS) etc enjoy complete backing and support of RAW. These Hindu extremists are asking public and others political forces to support LK Advani as future prime minister since Former Indian minister doesn’t believe in secularism and remained famous for taking stern actions against Muslims and others minorities living there. More over RAW is also supporting anti congress elements and those opposing forces that have pure nationalist approach and believe in extremisms. It is also notable here that RAW is already working 180 degree opposite to ruling party’s policy. LTTE issue, Lt Col Prouhit case , and Prabharkaran Escape ( LTTE Chief remained involved in Rajiv’s murder case ) were clear cut examples of RAW’s strokes against Congress policies.

Manvendra Singh wrote in the report “Even while Indian soldiers were dying in the jungles of north and eastern Sri Lanka, New Delhi was still engaging the LTTE in talks, and Chennai was allowing the militants to rest, recoup and refit in Tamil Nadu. And some intelligence agents were ambushed in the company of LTTE by the IPKF, unaware that New Delhi`s operatives were even there and, above all, moving with the militants. He further accused RAW of orchestrating ambushes against Sri Lankan Army which even the IPKF was unaware of.” “Similarly, the intelligence agencies even organised an ambush in Amparai by the Indian-raised Tamil National Army on a Sri Lankan Army brigade commander without the knowledge of the IPKF leadership. Pak Alert Press

1) The sprawling Indian embassy has become a symbol of the Northern Alliance-Indian nexus which excludes the Pakhtuns from power. There is a lot of resentment in Afghanistan over this alliance in Kabul.

The Taleban have strong motives for targeting India. Many have lived in exile in Pakistan, where they absorbed not only the visceral hostility to India but also the fanaticism of those who see the ousting of India from Kashmir as a cause for Islamic Jihad. Pakistan was the main backer of the Taleban from their takeover in Afghanistan in 1986 until they were defeated by the allied coalition in 2001, when Islamabad officially dropped its support as a result of intense US pressure. Taleban insurgents are deeply suspicious of Indian support for President Karzai, who spent time in exile in India. India’s close involvement in reconstruction is seen as underpinning the Western-backed Government and in recent months there have been frequent attacks on Indian offices and projects around the country. Times UK

2) The presence of Indian troops is disliked by most Afghans, especially if the troops taking part in actual operations or if the troops provide logistical support to the minority government in Kabul. It’s India’s profile that is bothering the extremists in Afghanistan. Prior to the killing of Political Counsellor V. Venkateswara Rao, Defence Adviser Brigadier Ravi Datt Mehta, and ITBP staffers Ajai Pathaniya and Roop Singh, there have been three suicide attacks on Indian nationals this year

3) The Indian forces are now seen as collaborators of the occupation forces are therefore considered targets by the Afghan resistance. National Review reporter Jonathan Foreman writes that the involvement of Indian soldiers in Afghanistan has gone unreported in the West and “perhaps some of the journalists in Kabul need to get out of town more.”

In fact there are at least 1,000 Indian paramilitary soldiers of the ‘Indo-Tibetan Border Police’ and the ‘Border Roads Organization’ — an adjunct to the Indian military similar to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers — operating in Afghanistan

4) All the attacks were on Indians working on the strategic $266 million Zaranj-Delaram road, which will provide an all-weather link from Afghanistan to the Iranian port of Chabahar. The 218-km Zaranj-Delaram road construction project by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO). Concerted Taliban attacks on the personnel as well as the equipment of BRO has pushed the project completion date from December 2007 to December 2008. The project cost, too, has zoomed up to Rs 682 crore, instead of the Rs 377.47 crore sanctioned for it by the Indian government. India, has also deployed 254 ITBP soldiers in Afghanistan to augment the ‘‘local security cover’’ provided to the 306 BRO personnel engaged in the project as well as their machinery deployed on the road, which traverses through the poppy-cultivation belt. India is building a new road connecting Zaranj to Delaram, which is on the main Herat-Kandahar road. These projects will shorten the transit distance between Chabahar and Delaram by more than 600 kilometers.

Iran, India and Afghanistan had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in January 2003, to improve Afghanistan’s access to the coast. Under this agreement, Iran is building a new transit route to connect Milak in the southeast of the country to Zaranj in Afghanistan, and has already completed an important bridge over the Helmand River. (Kanchan Lakshman, Research Fellow, Institute for Conflict Management; Assistant Editor, Faultlines: Writings on Conflict & Resolution)

INDIA BUILT THE CHABAHAR PORT IN IRAN AND ALSO THE RAIL AND ROAD LINKS TO AFGHANISTAN

Indian countermoves to Gawador include the base in Tajikistan and port in Chahbahar Iran.

Maps of Iran showing the location of Chahbahar

Road maps of Iran showing the link to Afghanistan

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Chabahar FTZ: Strategically linked to Sarakhs and located in southwestern Iran off of the Oman Sea, Chabahar is the closest Iranian port to the Indian Ocean, and provides direct access to Turkmenistan and other Central Asian nations, via the Bafq – Bandar Abbas – Mashad – Sarakhs – Tajan rail lines thus effectively linking the Oman Sea to Sarakhs. The FTZ has two jetties with a capacity 2,000,000 tons per year, and has some 150,000 tons of storage facilities. The cornerstone of Chabahar’s industrial development is a large scale oil refinery with a capacity of some 225,000 barrels per day. major attractions of Chabahar has been the incentive package that it offers to investors including:

Minimal red tape as evidenced by the issuance of construction permits, office registrations, land sales, import permits and supply of telephone lines within 48 hours.These incentives have been further buoyed by facilities such as social and cultural centers such as theaters, technical and vocational centers and the like, highlighted by the forthcoming establishment of an international university in the zone. In light of the above, over the past four years the Iranian private sector has invested over 500 billion Rials into the FTZ and over 1,600 investment permits have been registered , 65% of which pertained to the manufacturing sector.

“To counter the Gwadar port that is also called the Chinese Gibraltar by Washington, India has built Chabahar port in Sistan-Balochistan province of Iran – just adjacent to Gwadar. India is also helping Iran in building a 200km road that will connect Chabahar with Afghanistan. It will provide access via land to the port for their imports and exports to and from Central Asia. Presently, India is in urgent need of a shorter transit route to quickly ship its trade goods to Afghanistan and Central Asia.” “China moved into India’s backyard when it signed an agreement with Sri Lanka in March 2007 to develop Hambantota Development Zone, which includes a container port, a bunkering system, an oil refinery, an airport and other facilities. It is expected to cost about US$1 billion and the Chinese are said to be financing more than 85% of the project. The entire project is scheduled to be completed in the next 15 years. Counter Current Abus Sattat Ghazalli.

5) Apart from the BRO-executed project, some 2,000 Indians are involved in a diverse array of reconstruction projects, prominently including the building of a 220 KV double circuit transmission line from Pul-e-Khumri in eastern Afghanistan to Kabul ($111 million); a sub-station at Kabul; the reconstruction of the Salma dam power project in Herat province ($80 million) being executed by the Water and Power Consultancy Services (India) Ltd.

6) A story in the Times of India claims that Brigidier Ravi Mehta was specifically targeting for his role in providing strategic vision and combat operations advice to his Afghan counterparts who are in office.

Brig Mehta, on his part, was playing a key role in India’s military training and logistical help to Afghanistan. Though India does not actually have soldiers deployed in Afghanistan, it has built bridges with the Afghan armed forces to counter any prospect of Pakistan regaining influence in the war-ravaged country through a resurgent Taliban

India has been regularly training Afghan officers and other ranks at its military training institutions, ranging from the National Defence Academy at Khadakwasla to the School of Artillery at Devlali, ever since the Karzai government came to office.
Apart from developmental projects like the construction of the 218-km Zaranj-Delaram road, India has also posted some army officers in Afghanistan to teach basic military fieldcraft and English skills to the Afghan army, apart from sending several military doctors to help at hospitals in Kandahar and elsewhere.

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India intelligence: “‘the aim of RAW is to keep internal disturbances flaring up and the ISI preoccupied so that Pakistan can lend no worthwhile resistance to Indian designs in the region.”

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Brigadier Ravi Datt Mehta

NEW DELHI: If the resurgent Taliban-ISI nexus in Afghanistan wanted to target some key Indian officials in Kabul, defence attache, Brigadier Ravi Datt Mehta, was certainly one of them.

A “bright and dynamic” officer who had developed “deep linkages” with the leadership of the fledgling Afghan army in the six months he had been posted in Kabul, Brig Mehta even had a “good relationship” with Afghan defence minister Abdul Rahim Wardak.

Brig Mehta, in fact, had accompanied Wardak when he came to New Delhi in April to hold discussions with his Indian counterpart A K Antony and visit Jammu and Kashmir for a first-hand look at the way Indian army conducted counter-insurgency operations.

“Brig Mehta was on the ball in Afghanistan. He was a confident, well-informed officer, who kept his ear to the ground and closely tracked the re-emerging strong links between Taliban and Pakistan’s ISI, among other things,” said a top defence official.

“The defence attache’s post in Kabul is, after all, one of the top three or four Indian military postings abroad. Brig Mehta was selected for the posting after a deep selection process,” he added.

Brig Mehta, who was commissioned into the army in June 1976, had varied operational experience, including stints in counter-insurgency operations in both J&K and North-East.

Apart from his Kabul posting, another indicator that he was headed for at least a “two-star rank” (Major-General) was that he had done the prestigious National Defence College course around three years ago.
The tragic incident on Monday came at a time when Brig Mehta’s wife Sunita and two children, Flight Lieutenant Udit Mehta, a 24-year-old MiG fighter pilot posted at Jodhpur, and Bhavya Mehta, a 19-year-old MBBS student, were all at Kabul. “Sunita was staying in Kabul, a non-family station, for the last three months due to a special Afghan government request. She was teaching Afghan girls for higher studies at an institute run by the Afghan education ministry. The children were there to visit their parents on a short holiday,” said an official.

Apart from developmental projects like the construction of the 218-km Zaranj-Delaram road, India has also posted some army officers in Afghanistan to teach basic military fieldcraft and English skills to the Afghan army, apart from sending several military doctors to help at hospitals in Kandahar and elsewhere.

Afghanistan wants to build its own national armed forces, which has only around 50,000 troops at present, to gradually replace US-led Nato’s International Security Assistance Force operating in the country.
It has sought India’s help in “capacity-building” of its armed forces, which even includes training of its pilots and technicians in operating Russian-origin Mi-35 helicopter gunships, as well as sourcing supplies for its Soviet-era tanks and aircraft.

“Kabul is also interested in sending more officers for specialised training at the Counter-Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School in Mizoram and High-Altitude Warfare School in J&K as well as the different commando and counter-terrorism courses run at Belgaum and Bareilly,” said a senior official.

“The Afghan government says this is necessary since the Taliban is increasingly resorting to IED blasts and suicide bombings instead of direct face-to-face confrontations,” he added

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