Decoded | India’s investments in Afghanistan as Taliban return
he Taliban have captured Afghanistan as the United States decided to withdraw the forces that included dogfaces from other Nato countries after two decades. Afghanistan was a scene of chaos as the Taliban blazoned palm over the Afghan government forces just four months after the group launched a countrywide descent. They fleetly captured one fiefdom after another, and eventually the capital megacity of Kabul on Sunday.
The preemption happed so fast that it left millions of Afghans stunned and most corridor of the world in shock. Harrowing illustrations have surfaced from all corridor of Afghanistan, with fear gripping the nation over the prospect of the return 1990-like Taliban governance. The Taliban ruled over Afghanistan during 1996-2001 enforcing a interpretation of Sharia that they interpreted as correct.
could mark the morning of another dark period for Afghanistan with query prevailing about the country’s profitable progress and its ties with the rest of the world, particularly with those countries which have invested heavily in Afghanistan.
India is one similar country. It has helped Afghanistan in all aspects of nation- structure over the once two decades when the US-Nato forces handed a guard against the Taliban and other fundamentalist forces. Although India remains on a‘ stay and watch’mode after the Taliban’s prisoner of Afghanistan, New Delhi has closed all its consulates and vacated 120 of its delegacy staff from Kabul.
Given the situation, it remains unclear how India will maintain politic ties with a government controlled by the militant group. The Taliban rule could disrupt India’s friendly ties with Afghanistan and latterly its strategic investments in the war- torn country.
India has enjoyed friendly politic ties with Afghanistan for a long time. This was why India played an active part in the nation rebuilding process in Afghanistan over the once two decades. India handed much- demanded experimental backing — both in terms of investments and bilateral trade — to the country.
Afghanistan has always been pivotal for India’s strategic interests in South Asia. After Afghanistan was left destroyed in 2001, India has helped the country make roads, seminaries, hospitals, heads and numerous other pivotal systems that helped shape the country’s future.
India has invested further than$ 3 billion in Afghanistan. This includes investments in over 400 structure systems across all businesses in the country.
Afghanistan is one of the many countries where India has delivered numerous functional systems, including the Afghan Parliament structure that was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2015. The cost of erecting it was estimated at$ 90 million.
