On other hand, Indians have a clear resume in Afghanistan. Moreover, Afghans follow the global notion; "The enemy of one's enemy is the friend".
India doesn’t have a “clear resume”, my friend. Did you know that India was the only non-communist country that supported the Soviet Union’s brutal occupation of your country, about 1,450,000 Afghans died in that conflict. It also supported the Northern Alliance.
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India to Provide Aid to Government in Afghanistan
March 7, 1989
By BARBARA CROSSETTE, SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES
LEAD: India agreed today to provide what a Government spokesman described as humanitarian and technical aid to President Najibullah's Government in Afghanistan, the Press Trust of India reported.
India agreed today to provide what a Government spokesman described as humanitarian and
technical aid to President Najibullah's Government in Afghanistan, the Press Trust of India reported.
The Government statement, which gave no details, followed a news conference today in which the Afghan Foreign Minister, Abdul Wakil, said he had come to India to ask for material and diplomatic assistance. Afghanistan, now under a state of emergency, is trying to cope with food and fuel shortages as well as an unstable security situation after the withdrawal of Soviet troops on Feb. 15.
Mr. Wakil also said his Government needed help in putting pressure on Pakistan to stop arming the Muslim guerrilla armies trying to topple the Najibullah regime. Afghan Minister Assails Iran
The Indian spokesman did not say what kind of assistance New Delhi might give to Kabul.
India has been alone in South Asia in support of the Soviet-backed Najibullah Government in Afghanistan. India, a nonaligned nation that has generally supported Soviet foreign policies in Asia, continues to maintain a diplomatic presence in Kabul, although all Western and several Eastern European embassies have withdrawn.
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A staunch ally of the Soviet Union during the Cold War, India supported the invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.
This decision made India vastly unpopular among Afghans.
A decade later, it continued to back the Communist-regime of President Najibullah, while Pakistan threw its entire support behind the ethnic Pashtun mujahideen warlords, particularly the Islamist Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who were fighting the Soviet Union.
So when the Taleban swept to power and put an end to a bloody civil conflict among warlords, India was left without any influence in the country.
It ended up backing the Northern Alliance, which controlled territory north of the Shomali plains near Kabul.