amitkriit
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Afghans will be the greatest beneficiaries whenever you point to them if Pakistan plunders their wealth. What I said earlier was a general comment about mining companies in relatively less educated third world countries lacking technical knowledge in common so that many in the society could know the meanings of being cheated when the foreigners are actually telling them about the benefits of the enterprise. If you are worried, I might sense trouble for Afghans.
Please do not consider me in anyway enemy of India, I am a friend. But I do not like poor people anywhere to be cheated out of their wealth even by my own country.
Why do you think despite being resource rich one of the major exports of Afghanistan was "narcotics"? That was because Afghanistan was unable to exploit it's natural resources.
If India doesn't get the contract, some other actor will get it. Doesn't change the ground reality even by a bit. But yes, Afghan government is responsible for placing important safe-guards like any other country. Afghanistan cannot do anything with it's natural resources without attracting investment, those resources will just keep sitting there. You are equating a foreign company getting mining contract to "exploitation", and there lies my disagreement with you. Going by that logic recently the Russian government showed willingness to allocate few exploration blocks to Indian oil/gas company, will that amount to exploitation of Russians at the hands of Indians?