Posted on 04/29/2006 7:34:02 PM PDT by Srirangan
New Delhi: Yet another kidnapping of an Indian engineer in Afghanistan has taken place even as the government of President Hamid Karzai is considering New Delhi's proposal of deploying its paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel to guard Indians working in the risky countryside.
India had made this proposal in the wake of the killing five months ago of Ramankutty Maniyappan, an engineer of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) working on the Zaranz-Delaram highway construction.
Karzai was reminded of the proposal when he was here on a visit earlier this month.
Diplomatic sources say that besides slow decision-making, the Karzai government is also hamstrung by Pakistani sensitivities about the presence of around 2,000 Indians working on various infrastructure and development projects in Afghanistan.
Islamabad has time and again protested at India having four consulates in Afghanistan, two of them in Jalalabad and Kandahar that are near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
Pakistan keeps accusing the Indian consulates of fomenting trouble in the tribal areas of North and South Waziristan where Pakistani security forces are constantly locked in a war of attrition with the Taliban and remnants of the Al Qaeda.
Who is behind Indian engineer K. Suryanarayan's kidnapping is not still clear. Sources say Qaeri Yusuf Ahmadi, who claimed to speak for the Taliban is not the usual spokesman. Claims by the Taliban are generally done in the name of its supremo Mullah Omar.
Osama bin Laden too has never blamed India or Indians. However, his deputy, Ayman al-Zaweherie, last week for the first time spoke of 'a Christian-Hindu-Zionist conspiracy'. One reason for this could be the perceptions about growing Indo-US relations in the wake of President George W. Bush's visit to India and the nuclear deal.
It is more likely that the kidnapping has been engineered by Pakistani agencies supporting the forces opposed to the Indian presence. A likely source of trouble could be Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the one-time Mujahideen leader of the anti-Soviet campaign in Afghanistan who later accused India of supporting his arch-rival, the late Ahmed Shah Massoud.
Would be a good move, the Indians have lots of experience fighting moose vermin.
The CRPF is regarded as indisciplined,trigger happy & volatile when one talks about India's CPOs...........
which makes them them perfect to take on these pigs.
Osama bin Laden too has never blamed India or Indians. However, his deputy, Ayman al-Zaweherie, last week for the first time spoke of 'a Christian-Hindu-Zionist conspiracy'. One reason for this could be the perceptions about growing Indo-US relations in the wake of President George W. Bush's visit to India and the nuclear deal. It is more likely that the kidnapping has been engineered by Pakistani agencies supporting the forces opposed to the Indian presence. A likely source of trouble could be Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the one-time Mujahideen leader of the anti-Soviet campaign in Afghanistan who later accused India of supporting his arch-rival, the late Ahmed Shah Massoud.Since the Pakistani gov't is (and has been)fragmented (at best), it's not surprising that the Taliban/al-Qaeda would be working cooperatively with elements of that gov't.
Thanks for posting this.
India will now introduce troops to Afghanistan, bolstering it's case for membership in the UN Security Council.
I guess they'll end up on Afghanistan's western border, threatening the loony mullahs of Iran.
They now have warplanes in Tajikistan to provide air cover.
http://www.india-defence.com/reports/1809
We can welcome India to the Bigs.
Bush is a genius.
These are not military forces but rather internal security police units,so they won't have much business threatening any nation.Besides,India ranks Pakistan higher in threat perception index than Iran,though Indo-Iranian ties have not been smooth of late.
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