India's role in bringing stability in Afghanistan will be very helpful: US

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India's role in bringing stability in Afghanistan will be very helpful: US
PTI | Oct 26, 2012, 10.27AM IST
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WASHINGTON: Emphasising on India's cooperation for developing stability in Afghanistan, US defense secretary Leon Panetta said here that India is an important country in the region and whatever India can do to bring stability in Afghanistan would be very helpful.

"India is an important country in that region. And obviously, whatever India can do to try to help develop stability in that region, both working with Afghanistan as well as Pakistan, would be very helpful to the prospects of peace in the future," Panetta told reporters on Thursday during a Pentagon news conference.

Talking about Afghanistan, Panetta said their goal has always been an Afghanistan that can govern and secure itself and that can be a sovereign and independent country in that important region of the world and one that is sufficiently secure so that al-Qaida never again finds a safe heaven from which to conduct attacks on our country or anyplace else.

"That's the goal. And that's the kind of Afghanistan that I think we're trying to work towards and I think it's the kind of Afghanistan the Afghan people want to have for the future as well," Panetta said in response to a question.

India's role in bringing stability in Afghanistan will be very helpful: US - The Times of India

 

[Wickerman]

Just yesterday I remember reading a thread that said that Afghanisthan might never be a "viable" state. It was a study put out by British MPs I think. Not so sure.

 

[LOVETOALL]

India is ready for higher responsibility in Afganistan...

 

[Norboo]

India is ready for higher responsibility in Afganistan...

I think India should leave Afghanistan alone and let Pakistan do the dirty work of sorting out the mess. Because it's going to be a quagmire for Pakistan from which it will never be able to come out. And that would suit India as Pakistan would be bogged down there till kingdom come. What Vietnam was for America, Afghanistan will be for Pakistan.

 

[somebozo]

I think India should leave Afghanistan alone and let Pakistan do the dirty work of sorting out the mess. Because it's going to be a quagmire for Pakistan from which it will never be able to come out. And that would suit India as Pakistan would be bogged down there till kingdom come. What Vietnam was for America, Afghanistan will be for Pakistan.

Pakistan is stuck in an ever worsening identity crisis and therefore it would be a folly to assume Pakistan can be of any help to sort the mess. Unless we come to peace with your geographic, cultural and historical reality very little can be expected from Pakistan as a stabilizing factor in Asian geo politics.