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New Delh: In his first comment in Afghanistan, the Head of Defense Staff of India Bipin Rawat said that “Taliban takeover was anticipated” but “Timeline surprised us”. On August 15, the Taliban took over the National Capital of Afghanistan Kabul with Afghan President, Ashraf Ghani left the country.
Speaking at an event, General Depten said, “Everything that has happened is something anticipated, only a schedule that has changed. From Prietif India, we anticipate the takeover of the Afghan Taliban … Yes, the timeline of course surprised us because of us. It happened several months to the line but almost the same, the same Taliban was there 20 years ago. “
India has since evacuated a number of citizens and opened the gate for Afghans, especially Sikh and Hindu minorities. During the weekend, two Sikh MPS Afghanistan – Anarkali Honaryar and Narendra Singh Khalsa also reached Delhi even because of growing worries if Taiban will respect minority rights.
The top Indian general highlights Indian concerns over terror saying, “We are worried about how terrorist activities from Afghanistan can overflow to India. So to extend our contingency planning has been going on and we are ready for it.”
His worries are that Pakistani-based terror groups such as Lashkar-e-Touiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad can build a safe place in the country under the Taliban government. India has raised this problem in several multilateral meetings including the United Nations, BRICS.
He rejected the relationship between the Indo Pacific crisis and Afghanistan impact on the saying, “Indo Pacific is on a different aircraft, dealing with Afghanistan, Taliban, terrorism, from that perspective, is something we all jointly fight global war in terrorism”, Explain that every support from Quad on dealing with terror “will be welcomed”.
India, along with the US has become a strong supporter of the Vision of Indo Pacific who saw the Indian and Pacific Ocean as a construction but China saw this with suspicion. Maintaining, “Indo Pacific should not see through the same prism (such as Afghanistan), they are two different problems. Yes, challenging security in this region, both of them raises challenges to security, but they are on two different aircraft and they are located On two planes and they. Parallel lines cannot meet. “
