Synopsis
While Jaishankar did not spell out in as many words the revival of India-Russia-Iran partnership on Afghanistan, the minister recalled that united and sovereign Afghanistan where minorities were protected was the goal of the three states two decades back.
India on Thursday reached out to Russia to create stability in the Afghan theatre by emphasising that the basis for the New Delhi-Moscow-Tehran partnership of the 1990s in support of the Ahmed Shah Masood’s Northern Alliance was still valid.
This view was expressed by India’s Foreign Minister S Jaishankar while speaking at the prestigious Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) in Moscow during this ongoing visit. It was no surprise that Jaishankar made a halt in Tehran on Wednesday en route to Moscow and the Afghan situation figured prominently during his talks with the Iranian leadership.
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1 Be ready: India must develop and utilise its own drone capabilities to undertake similar cross-border operations. PTI
G Parthasarathy
Chancellor, Jammu Central University & Former High Commissioner to Pakistan
Public attention in India is now on the drone attack on the Jammu air base. The attack was obviously masterminded by the ISI. Pakistan has used drones for some years now, to provide weapons and ammunition for terrorists infiltrated across the international border and the LoC in Punjab and J&K. New Delhi has woken up rather late in devising countermeasures to deal with the menace of drone attacks. It is time India developed measures not only to deal with challenges posed by incoming drones, but also by developing and utilising its own capabilities to undertake such cross-border operations. An Israeli partnership in developing our capacities, both defensive and offensive, in the production and use of drones could be very useful.
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