RedBaron
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USA has such a massive presence in Afghanistan that multiple consulates are unnecessary. India wants to play a large role there due to the reasons I've described in my previous post.Even if you went by those alone, India still has the highest number of consulates on that page. USA needs just one. Pakistan you can understand.
Consulates and embassies are official missions. Unofficial centers are anything but, and should be easy to neutralize for Haqqani's forces as these are typically not heavily fortified as embassies and consulates. If they could strike Kabul embassy, why can't they strike other outposts?But that's just that page. There's official and unoffical consulates, many of them along the Afghan-Pak border.
"Islamabad has on its part has been expressing its concerns over the location of six Indian consulates in cities along the Pakistan border, and of Indian military assistance to the Afghan authorities for the building of the Afghan national army."
http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/CEF/Quarterly/May_2006/Zeb.pdf
There's also the Indian Embassy in Zahidan which was caught exporting terrorism to the area of Balochistan and NWFP last year by providing agents and supplies for terrorists operating within the region.
None of the official missions are really very close to Pak border. And if this whole issue is so bothersome, why have GoP not formally created and presented a dossier to Holbrooke and mounted a diplomatic offensive as I mentioned in my previous post?
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