Backing a regional approach to stabilizing Afghanistan, India has invited over a dozen countries, including Pakistan and China, for a regional investors meet in New Delhi on June 28 to boost international private investment for the reconstruction of that country.
If Pakistan accepts the invitation, it will be the first time it will participate in an India-led initiative on Afghanistan, a country that is often seen as an arena of rivalry between the two neighbors.
The investors meet primarily aims at spurring private sector investment by roping in countries of the region, but India has also invited ministers and officials to the conference.
Afghan Foreign Minister Zalmai Rassoul is expected to lead his country’s delegation at the conference, in which over 50 Afghan companies will participate.
“Yes, I would like to confirm that all countries which were participants of the Istanbul process are being invited and that includes Pakistan too,” Syed Akbaruddin, the External Affairs Ministry’s spokesperson, told reporters.
India has pledged $2 billion for the reconstruction of Afghanistan, which has not gone down well with Pakistan, which is prone to see that country as part of its strategic backyard.
India and Pakistan haven’t discussed Afghanistan in their bilateral talks so far, but there is indication that there is a move in that direction.
President Asif Ali Zardari briefly met Indian External Affairs Minister SM Krishna in Beijing on Thursday on the sidelines of the SCO summit and inquired about India’s activities in Afghanistan. Krishna explained that India was focusing mostly in areas of capacity building, education and health.
The decision to hold a regional conclave is part of India’s emerging regional approach towards stabilizing Afghanistan in the run-up to the phased withdrawal of international troops from that country by 2014.
At the 12th summit of the June 6-7 Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Beijing, India backed a bigger role for the SCO in Afghanistan.
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There are strong indications that a new govt will come to centre after 2014 in India and that govt will be pro Afghanistan, pro China and anti Pakistan and anti America because the PM candidate of that new govt is Narendra modi, the accused of anti muslim riots. US has not granted him Visa for his alleged roles in riots whereas the same person has very good relations with China.
He is currently CM of Gujrat in India. China has invested 1800 crores in his state.
On Modi’s diplomacy, china govt released 14 Indian prisonors.
Narendra Modi is anti Pakistan from birth. If sources are to believed, he is the mastermind of gurilla movements in Balochistan and Sindh.
If he become PM, he will surely attack pak in the name of human rights violation in balochistan and sindh as India did for Bangladesh.
Deteriorating economy of Pakistan, isolation from international community and terrorism…..all these things have created a sound ground for Pakistan to undergo partition again which is backed by India and US.
I am also agree with this international private investment for the reconstruction of that country. If this plan will be successful then it will great moving plan for whole world.
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