India has long been involved in Afganistan . From the times of Ahmed Shah Masoud , They have provided open assistance to northern alliance against Jihadis (Still remeber those Dushanbe based Indian depots) . Then they managed to peneterate few Pakhtun Jihadi factions and eversince have been manipulating them against Pakistan in India`s interest . Its nothing new , the only difference is that India has decided to make these "connections" public . They want to be a "open" and "accepted" major stakeholder in Afghanistan after the withdrawl of the Americans . First they have successfully convinced their people and the world that the Afghan Jihadis are the greatest threat to them, using dirty propaganda tactics , and now, stepwise , they are letting the cat out of the bag !!