150,000 Indian troops to Afghanistan? India’s Vietnam?

Noticias de Rupia | Nouvelles de Roupie | Rupiennachrichten | новости рупии | 卢比新闻  | Roepienieuws | Rupi Nyheter | ルピーニュース  | Notizie di Rupia |  PAKISTAN LEDGERپاکستاني کھاتا | Moin Ansari | معین آنصآرّی | DefensebriefsIntellibriefs Translate to: Page copy protected against web site content infringement by Copyscape Bookmark and Share Add to Technorati RSS feed: | RUPEE NEWS | December 27th, 2008 | Moin Ansari |  معین آنصآرّی | اخبار روپیہ | India tried to take over Sri Lanka by sending in their troops. it cost them thousands of body bags and a dead prime minister. now they may be ready for more adventurism. Rupee News has been reporting on Indian moves in Afghanistan for years. India a secret player in Afghanistan: Bases—Lashkargarh, Qushila Jadid,Khahak,Hassan Killies. We published the breaking news in July, when 15000 Indian soldiers to Kabul: Anti-ISI Campaign unleashed. We published the real reasons behind the bombing of the Kabul Embassy. Kabul bombing: Ruse to send Indian troops to Afghansitan? We analyzed the situation from a historical perspective. The Singh Doctrine Fails to achieve Akhand Bharat. This Rupee News story analyzes Lord Curzon’s “On to the Oxus” policy and its final retreat to “back to the Indus”. The India Doctrine considers Afghanistan as part of the Indian sphere of influence. Authors from Bangladesh Barrister Munshi, and Dr. Isha Khan have recently written about the “India Doctrine” which discusses the Indian plans to recreate Akhand Bharat. Delhi strategy to destroy Pakistan: Indian Defense Review بغل میں چھري منہ پہ رام    رام۔ ۔

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Rupee News has already reported that the Indian analysts face a colossal cacodemon for the policy makers in India. Nightmare scenario for India in Kabul: The Taliban’s Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.

If the triumphalist Indian establishment pumped up by US bravado and promises of a US security Council seat are now riding the high horse of “Super Power”. If the establishment feels that the antidote to their Taliban succubus is to step into Kabul with full force, they may be following the path of the Kremlin. The fire from the Euphrates to the Indus and the Chenab will spread like wildfire to the Ganges. Perhaps the words of Saddam Husein may turn out to be prophetic “this is the mother of all battles”. Osama Bin Laden has long longed to suck in US forces into Pakistan. He may now find it even better to have India goaded towards it Waterloo.

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.”

This article about the 150,000 troops in Afghansitan was published in bdintell and other places

India has long been looking for an opportunity to flex its muscles in the Afghanistan imbroglio. It has been traditionally using the Afghan card to spell gloom and doom in Pakistan. As early as the 1962 Sino-Indian conflict, India urged the then Afghan government to deploy its armed forces along the Durand Line to dissuade Pakistan from any adventurism against India and exploit its weakness when it was being routed by the Chinese along Ladakh. During the 1965 and 1971 Pakistan-Indian wars too, Afghanistan sided with India. During the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the decade of seventies, Pakistan became a front-line state and with the help of USA and its allies, helped thwart the Soviet invasion and limited to the Durand Line and ultimately force the Soviets into retreat. India aided the Soviet secret service KGB and Afghan spy agency Khad to attempt to destabilize Pakistan through sabotage, sedition, subversion and acts of terrorism. The seeds of rebellion were sown in Balochistan, the fires of which are now again being stoked by Indian spy agency RAW.

The advent of Taliban Rule in Afghanistan threw a damper on Indian machinations to use Afghan soil to destabilize Pakistan; however, 9/11 provided a fresh impetus to Indian nefarious aims towards Pakistan. Since its erstwhile allies the Northern Alliance rose to power in Afghanistan, following the US-led invasion, India made the most of it by deploying Indian personnel working on various projects with the Afghan people and government for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the country. There are approximately 3,000-4,000 Indian nationals working on several such projects across Afghanistan. India has committed aid to Afghanistan in the 2002-09 period amounting to $750 million, making it the fifth largest bilateral donor after the United States, Britain, Japan and Germany. India has used these trade centers and its four Consulates to man with RAW and its four Consulates to man with RAW personnel to hatch plots against Pakistan. Indian forces will give respite to the ISAF and NATO forces but sink the Indians deep into the Afghan quagmire. The choice is theirs if they want to face the humiliation and ignominy of another disaster.

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150,000 Indian troops to Afghanistan-by Sultan M Hali

Recent media reports that India has signed an understanding with Afghanistan to deploy 150,000 of its armed forces personnel in Afghanistan to support the ISAF and NATO forces fighting insurgency in the war-ravaged country is not only disturbing but also bodes ill for the region. Indian defense planners are convinced that a significant Indian military presence in Afghanistan will alter the geo-strategic landscape in the extended neighborhood by expanding India’s power projection in Central Asia. India has historically had a friendly relationship with both Iran and Russia. With Iran, India can also ride on the goodwill created by Zaranj-Delaram highway, which has provided a road link between Afghanistan and Iran. These nations could well be more amenable to an Indian military presence than they have been to the United States and its NATO allies in Afghanistan.

Sushant K Singh, in his article titled, `Security Watch – Indian presence essential in Afghanistan’ comments: “The Pakistani state will be denied the strategic depth it seeks by installing a favorable dispensation in Afghanistan. The Pakistani establishment will be compelled to divert its energies from their eastern to their northern borders. Loud protests can be anticipated from Pakistan against India’s active military involvement in the region, but the involvement of the United States will restrict Pakistani antipathy to voluble complaints. US officials have, moreover, long been frustrated at what they view as Pakistan’s failure to do enough to combat militants along its border with Afghanistan. An Indian military involvement in Afghanistan will shift the battleground away from Kashmir and the Indian mainland. Targeting the jihadi base will be a huge boost for India’s anti-terrorist operations, especially in Kashmir, both militarily and psychologically. Until the time Islamic fundamentalist forces are active in Afghanistan and Pakistan, India’s battle to contain terrorism in Kashmir will always be a defensive one. This is because ISI and other jihadist forces across the border have the ability to calibrate the level of terrorism in India. India can counter this effectively only if it has the capacity to strategically ratchet up pressure either of Pakistan’s fronts.”

He further surmises that “The presence of Indian military in Afghanistan and provision of aid for infrastructure development and human resource training in the war-ravaged country are not mutually exclusive options. In any case, the ferocity of the enmity of jihadist elements against the Indian state will not be subdued, if India shuns military deployment in favor of solely executing developmental projects. Moreover India will find it much easier to successfully execute civil projects once it has stabilized the security climate by taking military control of a region. Soft power has to be an important component of any successful counterinsurgency operation; but it has to be augmented by hard power – of having military boots on ground. It will also send a strong message to the local Afghan nationals that India is in there for a long haul, putting lives of its soldiers to risk, and not restricting itself to merely throwing some alms at them, through developmental aid or projects.”

India has long been looking for an opportunity to flex its muscles in the Afghanistan imbroglio. It has been traditionally using the Afghan card to spell gloom and doom in Pakistan. As early as the 1962 Sino-Indian conflict, India urged the then Afghan government to deploy its armed forces along the Durand Line to dissuade Pakistan from any adventurism against India and exploit its weakness when it was being routed by the Chinese along Ladakh. During the 1965 and 1971 Pakistan-Indian wars too, Afghanistan sided with India. During the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the decade of seventies, Pakistan became a front-line state and with the help of USA and its allies, helped thwart the Soviet invasion and limited to the Durand Line and ultimately force the Soviets into retreat. India aided the Soviet secret service KGB and Afghan spy agency Khad to attempt to destabilize Pakistan through sabotage, sedition, subversion and acts of terrorism. The seeds of rebellion were sown in Balochistan, the fires of which are now again being stoked by Indian spy agency RAW. The advent of Taliban Rule in Afghanistan threw a damper on Indian machinations to use Afghan soil to destabilize Pakistan; however, 9/11 provided a fresh impetus to Indian nefarious aims towards Pakistan. Since its erstwhile allies the Northern Alliance rose to power in Afghanistan, following the US-led invasion, India made the most of it by deploying Indian personnel working on various projects with the Afghan people and government for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the country. There are approximately 3,000-4,000 Indian nationals working on several such projects across Afghanistan. India has committed aid to Afghanistan in the 2002-09 period amounting to $750 million, making it the fifth largest bilateral donor after the United States, Britain, Japan and Germany. India has used these trade centers and its four Consulates to man with RAW and its four Consulates to man with RAW personnel to hatch plots against Pakistan.

It has also been aspiring and preparing its troops to be deployed in Afghanistan. It has been training its armed forces with British Armed Forces. Three years of intense interaction between the Royal Marines (RM) mountain leaders and the Indian Army’s Gulmarg-based High Altitude Warfare School

(HAWS) culminated last year in a 25-day exercise code-named, Himalayan Warrior comprising specialist high altitude training in the Ladakh region of the Kashmir Himalayas to enable both forces to operate in the rugged terrain of Afghanistan.India seems to have forgotten its sad experience in its intervention in the Sri Lankan civil war in the late 1980s, which ended in disaster. Its armed forces late entry in Afghanistan also spells doom and gloom. Since 2002, the Taliban has demanded the departure of all Indian personnel working in Afghanistan. It has conducted multiple attacks against Indian targets. Many of these have been concentrated in the southwest province of Nimroz (which is at the heart of the strategic Zarang-Delaram highway project being built under the auspices of the Indian army’s Border Roads Organization (BRO). They include the abduction and murder of Ramankutty Maniyappan, an employee of BRO in November 2005; the killing of two soldiers of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police on 3 January 2008 in the first-ever suicide-attack on Indians in Afghanistan; and the killing of another ITBP trooper on 5 June 2008. The suicide car-bombing in front of the Indian embassy in Kabul on the morning of 7 July 2008 that killed at least fifty-four persons and wounded more than 140 should be a stark reminder to Indian forces, what lies ahead. If they think that they can bask in the glory of a “victory” in Afghanistan along with other international armies, they are sadly mistaken. The ISAF and NATO forces in Afghanistan are exhausted and seeking face-saving truce and power sharing with the Taliban.

Indian forces will give respite to the ISAF and NATO forces but sink the Indians deep into the Afghan quagmire. The choice is theirs if they want to face the humiliation and ignominy of another disaster.

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