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| India in Anti-Taliban Military
Plan
India Reacts - American
government told other governments about Afghan invasion IN JUNE! In this article published in India last
summer, the Indian Government announces that it will support America's
PLANNED military incursion into Afghanistan. India in anti-Taliban military plan India and Iran will
"facilitate" the planned US-Russia hostilities against the
Taliban. India and Iran will "facilitate" US and Russian plans for "limited military action" against the Taliban if the contemplated tough new economic sanctions don't bend Afghanistan's fundamentalist regime. The Taliban controls 90 per cent of Afghanistan and is advancing northward along the Salang highway and preparing for a rear attack on the opposition Northern Alliance from Tajikistan-Afghanistan border positions. Indian foreign secretary Chokila Iyer
attended a crucial session of the second Indo-Russian joint working group
on Afghanistan in Moscow amidst increase of Taliban's military activity
near the Tajikistan border. And, Russia's Federal Security Bureau (the
former KGB) chief Nicolai Patroshev is visiting Teheran this week in
connection with Taliban's military build-up. Indian officials say that India and Iran will only play the role of "facilitator" while the US and Russia will combat the Taliban from the front with the help of two Central Asian countries, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, to push Taliban lines back to the 1998 position 50 km away from Mazar-e-Sharief, a city in northern Afghanistan. Military action will be the last option though it now seems scarcely avoidable with the UN banned from Taliban-controlled areas. The UN which adopted various means in the last four years to resolve the Afghan problem is now being suspected by the Taliban and refused entry into Taliban areas of the war-ravaged nation through a decree issued by Taliban chief Mullah Mohammad Omar last month. |