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| Taliban trigger security nightmare for India | | Delhi not for sending troops to Afghanistan | | |
NEW DELHI, OCT. 2
Indications from Delhi's power corridors are clear on the Congress-led coalition government's unpublished decision against sending Indian troops to Afghanistan to join the NATO-led forces. Although India has pledged 650 million dollars for the socio-economic reconstruction of war-torn Afghanistan, its options are limited. India is not willing to send troops to help NATO-led forces, which continue to face a tough time against the Taliban.
Quite a serious development for New Delhi: A resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan and growing number of casualties for NATO forces are making Afghanistan a security nightmare for India. This phenomenon is impacting directly on Delhi's stakes in the region. The Manmohan Singh government is, at present, viewing the changing scenario in Afghanistan with alarm.
Manmohan Singh recently stated that India had stakes in a "stable, democratic and prosperous" Afghanistan. Now the UPA government at the Centre appears worried about the re-grouping of the Taliban militia. The Taliban have already been found having linkages to Al Q... | |
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| India is on the offensive | | ISI under fire from all sides | | |
NEW DELHI, OCT 2
It is war of words, literally, between New Delhi and Islamabad. India's accusations that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency master-minded the serial bomb blasts in July, that killed 186 and injured 800 others, has come as no real surprise. After all, there were elaborate leaks to the press every time a militant was arrested. Every confession made headlines.
Every nut, screw and bolt used in the pressure cooker bombs was front page news. Pakistan has denied ISI's involvement. It appears that the fate of the peace process in the light of these accusations once again hangs in the balance. In the Cuban capital, Havana, the leaders of both countr... | |
| | | | PM unlikely to fish in troubled waters | | Stage being set in Tihar jail for Afzal's execution | | |
NEW DELHI, OCT. 2
Preparations are afoot inside Delhi's Tihar Jail for carrying out execution of Kashmiri militant, Mohammed Afzal Guru, who has been sentenced to death for the 2001 terror attack on Parliament. Afzal is currently lodged in the Tihar Jail. And security within and around the jail premises has been further tightened.
The Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, has received pleadings from several senior Kashmiri leaders, including the Chief Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad, the esprit de corps of the National Conference (NC) and former Chief Minister, Farooq Abdullah, seeking his intervention in the matter so as to save Afzal from being hanged till death on October 20. Indicat... | |
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