Has Pak. been sidelined by the Indo-Afgh. Strategic Agreement?

[VCheng]

This is likely going to be an important development:


from: India, Afghanistan ink strategic partnership deal

India, Afghanistan ink strategic partnership deal
'Pakistan Times' Wire Service

NEW DELHI: India and Afghanistan have signed a strategic partnership agreement deepening their economic and security ties, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Tuesday.

Singh reached the deal with Afghan leader Hamid Karzai during talks in New Delhi on Tuesday in a move likely to raise suspicion in Pakistan, which is already wary of the relationship between its two neighbours

An earlier report said that Afghanistan and India are set to forge closer ties Tuesday as Hamid Karzai visits New Delhi during an unstable time in South Asia.

The Afghan president, making his second trip to the Indian capital this year, will meet Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Some analysts in India predict that Karzai will elevate the role of India in stabilising his violence-torn country as he eyes a drawdown of US-led troops by 2014 after more than a decade of fighting.

The proposed alliance, which foreign ministry officials declined to confirm, was said to include an Indian commitment to increase its training of Afghan security forces, including the police.

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

When was Pakistan not being 'sidelined'?

Pakistan has been complaining for months that it has been excluded from US & Afghan talks for political reconciliation with the Taliban, and the Afghans have refused to allow Pakistan to train Afghan forces, while India has been training small batches of Afghan security forces already.

So what exactly is a new development here?

 

[Devil Soul]

Karzai reassures 'twin brother' Pakistan
By AFP / Express
Published: October 5, 2011
NEW DELHI: Afghan President Hamid Karzai sought Wednesday to reassure Pakistan about his country’s new partnership deal with India, which will see New Delhi help train Afghan security forces.

“Pakistan is a twin brother, India is a great friend. The agreement that we signed yesterday with our friend will not affect our brother,” Karzai told an audience in New Delhi.

India and Afghanistan signed a strategic partnership agreement on Tuesday shortly after Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai landed in New Delhi, his second visit to India this year.
(Read: Karzai travels to India amid regional tension)

It is the first strategic pact Afghanistan has signed with any country, and comes at a time relations between Kabul and another key regional stakeholder, Islamabad, have deteriorated alarmingly.

The agreement, released in full late Tuesday, included commitments by India to assist with the training and equipping of Afghan security forces, offer more scholarships for Afghan students and facilitate bilateral trade. Both countries said they would work together more closely in international forums such as the United Nations, and work for “everlasting peace and friendship between the two governments.”

 

[notsuperstitious]

Pakistan is India's twin brother too, Afghanistan is a great friend. The agreement that we signed yesterday with our friend will not affect our brother.

 

[Devil Soul]

Karzai shaab ... on damage control mode....... lol

 

[Awesome]

This just in... We were born yesterday!

 

[Dalai Lama]

See! Nothing to worry about. Strategic agreement for India and reassurances for Pakistan.

All is well.

 

[tamygu]

Karzai is on damage control mode coz it seems he didnt get what he wanted from india ie asylum.New delhi might have rejected it for fear of ajngering GHQ Pindi.

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

See! Nothing to worry about. Strategic agreement for India and reassurances for Pakistan.

All is well.

Seriously, what exactly did this 'Strategic Agreement' deliver, on a tangible level, that India and Afghanistan were not already engaging in?

 

[lem34]

Seriously, what exactly did this 'Strategic Agreement' deliver, on a tangible level, that India and Afghanistan were not already engaging in?

These agreements are worthless until an afghan govt representing afghanis not american soldiers is in place.

 

[notsuperstitious]

Seriously, what exactly did this 'Strategic Agreement' deliver, on a tangible level, that India and Afghanistan were not already engaging in?

A transparent framework. Transparency is good for Pak-Af trust building.

(BTW request you to take care of the false flag tamygu's useless posts too, while you are at it. He's troling on all threads.)

 

[MilSpec]

First couple of mins sums it all

 

[fd24]

Seriously, what exactly did this 'Strategic Agreement' deliver, on a tangible level, that India and Afghanistan were not already engaging in?

AgNo

I genuinely believe that Indias involvement is fragile at best. Pakistan has taken a massive brunt and hit over the last 10 years. We are all fully aware the outcome of any agreement is built with dodgy foundation due to the leader of Afghanistan. When Americans go he has no choice but to go. This is the fragmented and delusional stability the USA have created. I just want tighter security on our borders and its time to look after our people.

 

[Alchemy]

You mean back to taliban ???

 

[Leviza]

lol india keep falling into USA trap, and making deals with the mayor of one city, everyone knows who's in control of afghanistan, the sooner indians and americans ack this , they can pull out of this war, otherwise no way , it will keep going on like this and if they engage Paksitan into this (they are doing it) then it will move into whole region including india