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ID:
154756
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Ever since Alexander invaded India in 3rd century BC, the Indian rulers have been preoccupied with strategic dynamics of their North-West region. Many subsequent invasions and mingling of races, religions and people was followed by a more coherent and systematic ascendance of Moguls in India. Though British came to India from sea routes, the North-West continued to remain a persistent irritant for various reasons.
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ID:
154754
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Ethnic problem created by geographical divisions has inexorably severe consequences for South Asia . Involvement of big powers in Afghanistan stoked the atmosphere of crisis. Fueled by religious fundamentalism the problem has intensified engulfing almost all countries in the world with few options for an easy solution.
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ID:
154760
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The conflict in Baluchistan is protracted and extremely complex. Basically, the root causes of the conflict are both historical and political. Besides the historical and political reasons, the social factors such as ethnicity and religion has also played a vital role in the continuance of the conflict. Lack of representation at the decision-making level and low quotas for political representation are the prominent factors that have added more misery to the ongoing problems, thus spiraling this conflict out of control.
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ID:
154771
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ID:
154755
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Of late, India’s Kashmir has found its counterpart in Pakistan’s Balochistan. This violence-plagued province of Pakistan has become an instrument of realpolitic in the hands of India vis-a-vis her arch rival. When Pakistan sees the prospects of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) as a game changer, Balochistan remains as the biggest challenge in the road since India has sympathy for the rebellious Balochis who have fallen victim to a protracted Pakistani atrocities and repression.
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ID:
154769
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Balochistan’s ethno-national movement for freedom was primarily fought against its subjugation by sovereign Pakistan, the forceful annexation followed with their alienation in terms of plunder of their resources, unemployment, economic backwardness and non-availability of basic infrastructure compounded the ethnic differences, which let them to never embrace idea of the Muslim nationalism imposed by Pakistan.
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ID:
154768
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The history of Balochistan marred by economic exploitation, deprivation, political inaptitude, and unfulfilled promises. All these factors acted as the catalyst for the emergence of insurgency in the province. The onus of this precarious situation of Balochistan is primarily vested with the State, for being the centre of decision making process.
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ID:
154753
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Post 2001, India has come forward swiftly contributing to the tune of 2 billion USD plus the recent additional aid of $1 billion declared during the seventh Heart of Asia Conference in Dec 2016, towards capacity building and reconstruction of Afghanistan’s infrastructure. Transiting goods through the route via Wagah-Peshawar-Torkham would greatly reduce the freight rates of goods from India to Afghanistan.
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ID:
154764
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India has been playing a constructive role in Afghanistan since the ouster of Taliban in late 2001. India’s policy options in Afghanistan were clear. Afghanistan should be a democratic multicultural state thereby preventing the return of Taliban. It is in interests of the region that Afghanistan should be a country with peace and stability.
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ID:
154763
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The formation of the national unity government in Afghanistan – as envisaged in the power-sharing deal brokered earlier by US Secretary of State, John Kerry – marked the end of the months-long political stalemate. The political impasse, stemming from an alleged fraud in the presidential run-off elections, proved to be a major impediment in the process leading to the first democratic transition in Afghanistan.
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ID:
154765
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However, the project has its own complications. India might face opposition from Iran and Afghanistan as Baluch land also lies under the territorial control of Iran and Afghanistan. Secondly, in the light of Indo-US and Indo-Saudi relations getting stronger, Indian influence in Baluchistan might be used by the US and the Saudis to frustrate Iran.
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ID:
154757
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi threw a diplomatic gambit when he announced India’s concerns for the on-going movement in Balochistan from the ramparts of Red Fort on India’s Independence Day on August 15, 2016. He castigated Pakistan for human right violations in Balochistan, Pak Occupied Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan.
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ID:
154751
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As I write this article during the month when India got its Independence seventy years ago from British Raj and simultaneously a new country was carved out of India by the Britishers, I start wondering as in what state did the Britishers leave our country into. They departed leaving all controversial issues behind. They drew the Redcliff Line dividing families, rather a large part of Indian population into two.
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ID:
154758
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Both Afghanistan and Pakistan have undergone long decades of instability and turmoil due to on-going fratricidal wars between different ethnic tribes resulting into long spate of continuing turbulence between Afghanistan and Pakistan and also within Pakistan between the country’s federal government with Pakistani army and various groups of Baloch insurgents fighting for an independent and sovereign Baluchistan.
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ID:
154759
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In fine, since, the end of the Cold War, Pakistan’s Afghanistan policy has been dictated by the geo-political interests in the region. Afghanistan’s strategic location at the crossroad has forced Pakistan to follow the doctrine of ‘Stategic Depth’, and therefore, Islamabad wants to install a favourable government in Kabul. To that end, Pakistan has accomodated Afghan Taliban terorists and supported them against the government of Kabul to keep on check in Afghanistan.
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ID:
154766
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For the last 70 years, relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan have been quite tense. Both blame each other for disturbing their internal peace and security. Not only there is border dispute between the two states, but both are blaming each other for spreading terrorism and destabilizing the region. It seems from the present scenario that both are adopting the policy of tit for tat.
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ID:
154772
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ID:
154762
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Seven decades have been passed, since the creation of a new homeland for Indian Muslims, namely Pakistan. These decades have experienced three constitutions and a series of unstable Government in Pakistan. The nation building process is still far from satisfactory level. Between 1947 to 2012, not even once did an elected government complete its tenure and peacefully transfer of power to another elected government.
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ID:
154770
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The paper is an attempt to explore the causes that were responsible for the withdrawal of the US-led NATO forces from Afghanistan as the withdrawal does not represent a mission completed in achieving all the three main goals that were set forth in 2001 by the US, ISAF and NATO: eliminate Osama-bin-Laden and the Al-Qaeda terrorist networks from Afghanistan; to remove the Taliban from power and the last to bring stability in Afghanistan and establish a democratic state.
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ID:
154752
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Very recently, India’s ambassador to Afghanistan Amar Sinha criticised Pakistan for its suspected proxy war tactics and encouragement for terrorism in Afghanistan. He emphasised that Pakistan is trying to use Afghanistan as its combat zone while doing nothing to eliminate the terrorist sanctuaries on its soil. Ambassador Sinha’s accusations were swiftly refuted by in a statement released by Pakistan’s embassy in Afghanistan maintaining that India’s accusations are ‘baseless and unfounded.
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