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Since Afghanistan is strategically crucial for India, a strong and vibrant economic relationship with Afghanistan is, therefore, of critical value and relevance for India. In view of India’s relations with its close neighbour Pakistan, Afghanistan attaches further significance for India. Close and stable relations with Afghanistan are possible through sustained and growing trade and investment relations. Afghanistan is blessed with enormous resources and because of its geographical position will become an energy corridor (for TAPI gas pipeline) in the future that would be of considerable importance to India. As a growing and large economy, India needs more energy resources to sustain her high economic growth. Against this background, this paper has highlighted the bilateral trade potential and modest attempt has made towards in depicting Afghanistan as potential and important country for India in terms of geo-strategic, geo-political and geo-economic factors.
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110092
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THE IDEA OF BUILDING a gas pipeline from Central Asia to Pakistan and India with transit through Afghanistan first came to light in the Soviet Union as early as the 1980s. However, the war in Afghanistan prevented this project from being developed. In 1993, Bridas S.A.P.I.C. (Argentina) revived this idea by presenting former President of Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov with the Trans-Afghan Gas Pipeline project.1 Two years later, the leaders of Turkmenistan and Pakistan signed an agreement on drawing up a technical feasibility report. * At this time, the Americans, who were trying to build up their geopolitical influence in Central Asia, also joined its development. In 1995, America's Unocal appeared on the Turkmen market, managing to displace Bridas SA.P.I.C. with the support of the U.S. Department of State. It is worth noting that, according to certain data, the current Afghan leader Hamid Karzai worked for Unocal right up until 2001.2 The Afghans also supported the idea of the project; the "good" members of the Taliban were enthusiastic about the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project, insisting that the United States hold talks with them as the representatives of Afghanistan.3
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