Man am I glad I live in a country where the major press organizations lay out all the complexities of the war in Afghanistan. It’s not like I have to read The Times of India or anything.
Without naming Pakistan or its spy agency ISI, India on Saturday said the attack on its embassy in Kabul earlier this week was
the handiwork of the enemies of India-Afghan friendship and their “patrons across the border”.Unfazed by the second such incident in 15 months, New Delhi also reiterated its “unwavering commitment” to the reconstruction of Afghanistan and its assistance to the Afghan people “in realising a democratic, peaceful and prosperous” country.
“The attack was clearly the handiwork of those who are desperate to undermine Indo-Afghan friendship and do not believe in a strong, democratic and pluralistic Afghanistan,” Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao said in Kabul.
Expressing her “deep concern and revulsion” over the “barbaric and cowardly attack,” she stressed that the attack was “so clearly aimed against the people of India and the people of Afghanistan and their abiding friendship”.
At least 17 people were killed and over 80 injured when a Taliban suicide bomber detonated a car packed with explosives near the Indian embassy in Kabul Thursday morning. Barring three Indian paramilitary personnel who were injured, all the other casualties were Afghans.
What will be the repercussions if Obama cuts and runs from Afghanistan vis a vis our relations with India? Couple that with his “no-nukes” stance and India may not see close relations with the U.S. as good for India.
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