| ID | 114446 |
| Title Proper | India's Afghanistan policy |
| Other Title Information | reassessing India's role in Afghanistan |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Tennyson, K N |
| Publication | 2012. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Afghanistan is India's most important neighbouring country, with
which India has shared strategic, economic and political interests for
centuries. However, India-Afghanistan relations officially began only
after India's independence, more specifically after the signing of the
Treaty of Friendship between the two countries on January 4, 1950. As
early as March 22, 1949, Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of
India, emphasising the geo-political importance of India's neighbouring
countries (including Afghanistan) for India's foreign policy, remarked
during his lecture at the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA),
New Delhi, "[T]he nearby countries always have a special interest in one another and India must, inevitably, think in terms of her relations
with the countries bordering her by land and sea…I would also include
Afghanistan, although it does not touch India's borders; Tibet and
China, Nepal, Burma, Malaya, Indonesia and Ceylon [Sri Lanka]."
1
Since
then, successive Indian leaders have taken great interest in the political
developments in Afghanistan and its neighbouring countries, because a
political crisis in the region, directly or indirectly, spills over to India and
affects its strategic and security interests. |
| `In' analytical Note | Defence and Diplomacy Vol. 1, No.2; Jan-Mar 2012: p.59-68 |
| Journal Source | Defence and Diplomacy Vol. 1, No.2; Jan-Mar 2012: p.59-68 |
| Key Words | India ; Afghanistan ; India's Afghanistan Policy ; India's Foreign Policy ; India - Pakistan Relations ; Taliban ; Terrorist Organisations |