Taliban wants positive relationship with India, welcomes New Delhi's contribution in Afghanistan

India should not engage Taliban at this point wait a couple of years and see what unfolds.
All the overtures of Taliban is just ISI/Pakistan Foriegn office coached statements.

And for a change stop being baniyas, as far as Geo-strategic implication, India hasn't done jack shit in the past two decades, so no need to worry now. Focus on more important things on the home front, build up the economy focus on infra and shore up defenses. Leverage economy to its strategic goal and really dedicate 10% effort in nation-building as we do on *censored*ing elections.

@_Anonymous_ @randomradio @Sathya @Ashwin @nair @Parthu

Even if we want to they are not going to talk to us about anything that will benefit our relations.

Various anti-Talib power blocks will emerge in Af and that's who we will have to engage with as usual.
 
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Various anti-Talib power blocks will emerge in Af and that's who we will have to engage with as usual.
I am quite skeptical of that. With NA there were just two guys who were truly natural leaders as well as brilliant tacticians. - General Ahmed Shah Massoud and General Mohd Fahim.... there is a huge void in N.A at this point. Rest twitter warriors are just loudmouths and have no real war experience and thier conduct showed the same. When the Taliban arrived on 75cc motorcycles, they escaped in Mraps.
 
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I am quite skeptical of that. With NA there were just two guys who were truly natural leaders as well as brilliant tacticians. - General Ahmed Shah Massoud and General Mohd Fahim.... there is a huge void in N.A at this point. Rest twitter warriors are just loudmouths and have no real war experience and thier conduct showed the same. When the Taliban arrived on 75cc motorcycles, they escaped in Mraps.
Give it time. The resistance will emerge & their leaders too. In any case in Afghanistan, all invaders there beginning with the British have had a walk over . It's only later that the resistance begins to take shape. That's how it's always been in Afghanistan. That's how it will be this time around too.That's in the natural order of things.
 
Give it time. The resistance will emerge & their leaders too. In any case in Afghanistan, all invaders there beginning with the British have had a walk over . It's only later that the resistance begins to take shape. That's how it's always been in Afghanistan. That's how it will be this time around too.That's in the natural order of things.
Resistance will emerge but will only play second fiddle to Taliban, that's crude and cruel reality now. Till Taliban has full backing of Pakistan, China will be aligned with them, so will Russia due to Chinese factor in Pakistan/Taliban side. Our only hope is/was Iran which is also aligning with China. End result in near term is bleak for India. Let's hope Afghani People tide over this and emerge from dark days at the earliest.
 
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I am quite skeptical of that. With NA there were just two guys who were truly natural leaders as well as brilliant tacticians. - General Ahmed Shah Massoud and General Mohd Fahim.... there is a huge void in N.A at this point. Rest twitter warriors are just loudmouths and have no real war experience and thier conduct showed the same. When the Taliban arrived on 75cc motorcycles, they escaped in Mraps.

If Star Wars has taught me anything, then it's that there will always be a resistance. People always come out of the woodwork to stand up to opression. What follows next is funding such people. It won't take long for the Iranians, Balochis and other foreigners to begin training and funding such people.
 
Resistance will emerge but will only play second fiddle to Taliban, that's crude and cruel reality now. Till Taliban has full backing of Pakistan, China will be aligned with them, so will Russia due to Chinese factor in Pakistan/Taliban side. Our only hope is/was Iran which is also aligning with China. End result in near term is bleak for India. Let's hope Afghani People tide over this and emerge from dark days at the earliest.
Latest news reports coming in from Kabul suggests the Taliban have freed all political prisoners to be read as terrorists including the dy chief of the TTP.

People tend to forget that in 1996 when the Taliban first emerged the only major internal problems Paxtan faced was the Mohajjir Pasthun rivalry & Mohajjir Sindi rivalry in Sind, sporadic incidents in Balochistan & the SSP / Lashkar e Jhangvi - Shia war of attrition.

Paxtan was in a much better place financially too with the US on their side & the insurgency in Kashmir yielding them rich dividends.

2021 is a much more complicated world in comparison & Paxtan in an even more complicated place.
 
India should not engage Taliban at this point wait a couple of years and see what unfolds.
All the overtures of Taliban is just ISI/Pakistan Foriegn office coached statements.

And for a change stop being baniyas, as far as Geo-strategic implication, India hasn't done jack shit in the past two decades, so no need to worry now. Focus on more important things on the home front, build up the economy focus on infra and shore up defenses. Leverage economy to its strategic goal and really dedicate 10% effort in nation-building as we do on *censored*ing elections.

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I think we are doing right..

First off we cannot enter bigway into Afghanistan without their public support.

We just did the base work.. Our efforts in Afghanistan were for the public. No matter whichever regime, we were only helping their people.

We were are also strengthening them with military training i think albeit very slow and in measly number s.

It would have taken a long time to get the bond stronger.

I guess we have achieved basic qualifications in hearts of their people.


We can and need to step up our strategy / involvement in future.

Giving generic aid hence forth won't sustain their government , it has become necessary to be focused creating strong hold that can wither the milita take over.

We should focus and aid the development of province closer to India, lease some bases.
And take it forward from there..

I hope we don't lose much of our friends there during this crisis.
 
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I think we are doing right..

First off we cannot enter bigway into Afghanistan without their public support.

We just did the base work.. Our efforts in Afghanistan were for the public. No matter whichever regime, we were only helping their people.

We were are also strengthening them with military training i think albeit very slow and in measly number s.

It would have taken a long time to get the bond stronger.

I guess we have achieved basic qualifications in hearts of their people.


We can and need to step up our strategy / involvement in future.

Giving generic aid hence forth won't sustain their government , it has become necessary to be focused creating strong hold that can wither the milita take over.

We should focus and aid the development of province closer to India, lease some bases.
And take it forward from there..

I hope we don't lose much of our friends there during this crisis.
Half our friends including Karzai Abdullah Yunus Kanooni etc are now driving the interim council. Seems to me everyone only wanted Ghani out . Well he's out . Now let's see what the future beckons.
 
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same old tactic of baghdad pact against soviets this time with china. Pakistan was eagerly waiting for this and this is when they will break.

Coming to India's involvement, in haram ke pillo ko India can thrash and make them run naked India has strength and power and even the military will, what lacks as always is the political will due to minority appeasement.

Otherwise It's not a big deal to teach them their own medicine.
 
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I think we are doing right..

First off we cannot enter bigway into Afghanistan without their public support.

We just did the base work.. Our efforts in Afghanistan were for the public. No matter whichever regime, we were only helping their people.

We were are also strengthening them with military training i think albeit very slow and in measly number s.

It would have taken a long time to get the bond stronger.

I guess we have achieved basic qualifications in hearts of their people.


We can and need to step up our strategy / involvement in future.

Giving generic aid hence forth won't sustain their government , it has become necessary to be focused creating strong hold that can wither the milita take over.

We should focus and aid the development of province closer to India, lease some bases.
And take it forward from there..

I hope we don't lose much of our friends there during this crisis.

The average Afghan wants some amount of stability in governance based on moral and ethical values, they would accept anybody providing that.

We are a country where half our population cannot survive without subsidised rice. If our economy was at the point where pretty much all our people could afford basic essentials like food and water on their own, we would have entered Afghanistan a long time ago.