While proceeding with its reconstruction efforts, India carries less baggage than the US and UK as it doesn’t have a direct military presence in Afghanistan. This gives India greater legitimacy and goodwill among ordinary Afghans. It is also an opportunity to rebuild close ties with a people who distrusted India’s intentions after the support India lent to the Soviet invasion in 1979, and the brutal communist regime which followed. Terrorism should surely not have the final (or indeed any) say in a growing and fruitful relationship between the people of Afghanistan and India.
dhiraj.nayyar@expressindia.com
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