Afghanistan has asked India to supply lethal defence equipment

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Afghanistan has asked India to supply lethal defence equipment to prevent terrorism

Afghanistan has asked India to supply lethal defence hardware as part of the intensified bilateral cooperation and even seemed to indicate that it would welcome troop deployment on its soil. Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai will be arriving here on Monday for a three-day visit, his second in six months, but at a crucial juncture with only a year left for the foreign troops pullout from Afghanistan.

Vigorously batting for a stepped-up Indian role, Afghan ambassador to India Shaida Mohammad Abdali said, “Investment in the security of Afghanistan is in India’s interest, to prevent spillover effects of terrorism on Afghanistan”. He noted that while India had been training Afghan security personnel, it was not adequate to address the issues of a difficult security situation.

“Given the time, we are required to sit down and discuss the contours of our defence cooperation to ensure predictability,” he said, adding that current level of cooperation was hardly enough to “take preventive and pre-emptive action” against common threats.

India has so far been training Afghan security personnel only in Indian institutions. It has also supplied limited number of non-lethal equipment like jeeps and trucks, and plans to hand over transport helicopters. “So, we would like to have both lethal and non-lethal assistance to our forces in Afghanistan,” he said.

A more engaged defence cooperation is likely to be a major topic of discussion during Karzai’s visit, which will also see him travelling to Jalandhar to receive a doctorate from a universtiy.
World Defence News: Afghanistan has asked India to supply lethal defence equipment to prevent terrorism

 

[Langda Tyaagi]

Thats a good news. After US leave, we have to keep a check on their security anyways.

 

[Sher Malang]

Why so many threads on the same news? kiun parosi bechare ko dara rahe ho bhai

 

[Armstrong]

Why so many threads on the same news? kiun parosi bechare ko dara rahe ho bhai

Wrror, bhai ke saaath aisaa kareiii gaaa ?

 

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India to consider Afghan request for arms supplies

Ahead of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai’s visit next week, India on Saturday said it was ready to discuss and consider Afghanistan’s request for arms supplies, as and when raised.Terming Afghanistan as a “strategically important” neighbour, the spokesperson in the Ministry of External Affairs said the two countries had mechanisms available to address all issues under Strategic Partnership Agreement.

“Our view is that there is a mechanism available, and all issues are discussed under this mechanism. And within our own modest means as a developing country, we will continue to discuss and respond to specific requests of the Afghan government,” he said.

“There are diplomatic channels available and we will consider these (requests) as and when they are raised in the channels which are available,” Akbaruddin added.

He was asked about Afghan Ambassador to India Shaida M Abdali’s request for enhanced defence ties with India, including supply of lethal and non-lethal military equipment.

Maintaining that in recent times India has focused on economic development of the war-torn country, the Spokesperson also said, “we realise that we cannot ignore political and security issues that stand in the way of realising that”.

India and Afghanistan have a Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA), inked in 2011, under which they have a Strategic Partnership Council which is headed by their foreign ministers, who met for the first time in 2012.
India to consider Afghan request for arms supplies | idrw.org

 

[Hyperion]

Spike his drinks with LSD, give him an air-gun, tell him it's an M1A1 Abrams, and send him back. The guy has obviously lost his sanity. Poor soul.