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India invests $11 billion in Afghanistan

Time will tell my friend. God only knows what happens after NATO leaves.:P

NATO will have their backup plans. But Afhganistan should go slow and stabilize first. The worst thing NATO did, it inflated their national exchequer many fold which Afhgan cant afford without foreign handout. Afhganistan never could afford to run their own country. Thats why they invited Soviets in the first place. They could not afford to pay for their security forces neither for police.
 
India the largest regional provider of humanitarian and reconstruction aid to Afghanistan is roposing what may become Afghanistan’s biggest foreign investment: $11 billion to build an iron mine, steel mill and railroad. India has already played a vital role in the reconstruction of Afghanistan in the past one decade after the fall of the Taliban regime, having spent $1.5 billion on Afghan roads, power lines, schools and the parliament

Raja Mohan, a senior fellow at the independent Center for Policy Research in New Delhi quoted by the Tampa Bay Times said, “India is showing its commitment to an unprecedented ambition and role in Afghanistan.”

Mr. Mohan further added, “Stabilizing the northwest of the subcontinent, Afghanistan and Pakistan, is absolutely India’s top foreign policy priority, because most of our threats come from there.”

India’s planned Afghan iron mine would help companies such as Jindal Steel & Power and Rashtriya Ispat Nigam by giving them shares in an estimated 1.8 billion tons of ore, for which global prices have more than doubled in the past three years. Afghanistan may see its geographic and economic isolation reduced as India follows China in promising money to build the country’s first major railroads.

As Afghan anger over the shooting of 17 civilians by an American soldier last month increases calls for an accelerated U.S. exit, India is seeking to position itself as a rival to China in investment in Afghanistan and as an anti-Taliban force to help the government of President Hamid Karzai.

Ali Jalali, a professor at the U.S. National Defense University in Washington and a former Afghan interior minister said, “The Indian and Chinese investments will contribute to Afghanistan’s stability” as the U.S. withdraws its main combat forces between now and 2014.

“They not only will bring jobs and infrastructure, but these two powerful governments will have a greater direct interest in seeing that all actors in Afghanistan behave moderately,” Jalali said in New Delhi.

India invests $11 billion in Afghan natural resources - KHAAMA PRESS | Afghan Online Newspaper

What a shame. There is more poor in india than Africa yet india out of sheer hate of Pakistan, india decides to invest 11 billion in Afghanistan for "strategic depth."
 
What a shame. There is more poor in india than Africa yet india out of sheer hate of Pakistan, india decides to invest 11 billion in Afghanistan for "strategic depth."
11 billion dollors are invested sir not given as an economic package so we will get returns in time... so it is a profit for furture - so please enlighten me how it is going to be a problem for people of india in fact it will only help indian people.
Afghan is a soverign nation and it has the right to do buisness with whomever they want i suppose, u are just a neighbouring nation so u cannot narrate what they have to do.
 
11 billion dollors are invested sir not given as an economic package so we will get returns in time... so it is a profit for furture - so please enlighten me how it is going to be a problem for people of india in fact it will only help indian people.
Afghan is a soverign nation and it has the right to do buisness with whomever they want i suppose, u are just a neighbouring nation so u cannot narrate what they have to do.

how will it help indian people? 11 billion dollars could feed your half a Billion hungry poor indians.

BBC News - 'More poor' in India than Africa
 
Many attempted to influence/control of Afghan, but they were disappointed.
 

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