Pul – India’s relationship with Afghanistan
Posted by Admin on Apr 25, 2015 in Uncategorized | 0 comments
The Obama administration has seemed to be taking a different approach, to relations with India compared to the bush administration. Why, Marvin do think that they’re taking this approach and do you think that will affect cooperation in Afghanistan.
Marvin Weinbaum say’s, well it continues to be in some ways an extension as I see above the bush policy. And that is to see these countries as such as both important for American foreign policy. But not necessarily have fit closely link so, that one policy depending on other policy. Recognizing that each country has to be addressed on its own terms, and that American interest. Will vary between the two countries obviously with India that focuses heavily on the economic side with Pakistan now it is the strategic relationship involving primarily now are efforts here, in counterterrorism in Afghanistan.
India does not have any troops in Afghanistan; they are training the Afghan National Army now. But do you think that the Indian government is concerned about the US withdrawal of US troops next year.
Ambassador Dennis Kux say’s, well I think the Indians are very concerned about that, because it for them the nightmare scenario is for Afghanistan to fall back into the sort of situation it had a before 911. With the government with the Taliban, strong position and above all with Pakistan having a strong position, good for both India and Pakistan. Afghanistan represents a sort of proxy, where they have a sort of proxy struggle. Playing out there are some other problems over Kashmir among so many other issues and so the Indians are very concerned about that.
Lisa, you mentioned the Afghanistan the strategic dialogue with India that took place with the US, Did any about touch on Afghanistan. Lisa Curtis say’s, I think, Afghanistan definitely did come up in that strategic dialogue, and I would assume that India did raise some up its concerns particularly about the issue reconciliation with the Taliban. Is Dennis mention the Indian spear that the situation will go back to the 1990’s where the Taliban dominated country, where Pakistan played a very large role so I think there are some concerns there and I’m and almost certain that it would have come up. But we don’t know if any of those at the dialogue resulted in any concrete change with India’s role in Afghanistan.
Lisa Curtis say’s, well what I saw was statements coming from President Obama from Secretary Clinton on down. Making a point that the US appreciated India’s role in Afghanistan, the role it played in terms and pledging development assistance, India’s pledge 1.2 billion in development assistance helped rebuild the parliament building is supporting democracy in that country. So I think the US made it clear that it appreciates India’s role, and I think that was important because as i mentioned there had been some mixed signals sent almost as if the Obama administration was listening too closely to Pakistani demands for the US to try to reduce Indian presence in Afghanistan. But I think we saw through the strategic dialogue that is not the direction that the Obama administration intends to move in.