Today, India’s concerns viz Afghanistan is as much geo-political as it is geo-strategic.
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PM Narendra Modi (R) and Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani ahead of a meeting at Hyderabad House in New Delhi. (File photo| PTI)
Going by media reports, the American exit from Afghanistan now seems to be more ignominious than from Vietnam decades ago. Else, there is no reason why the US troops should have exited from the Bangram air field in the middle of night, without informing the host-government of two decades. With that they also left behind 5,000 prisoners from the Taliban, which has been taking control of one distant district after another through months of gradual American down-sizing.