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21 Indians among passengers on France’s first evacuation flight from Kabul​

Emmanuel Lenain, the French ambassador to India, informed that these were the elite Gurkha troops who were guarding his country's embassy in the Afghan capital.

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21 Indians among passengers on France’s first evacuation flight from Kabul

Emmanuel Lenain, the French ambassador to India, informed that these were the elite Gurkha troops who were guarding his country's embassy in the Afghan capital.
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AbRaj said:
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I think it’s by design and not by mistake

meanwhile Somali sister of Mulla Omar who married to her own brother to get US citizenship is worried about US lives. Her love for Islamic Brotherhood is flexible/conditional

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Back in the day , when Obama announced the surge , there were speculations among pundits in the strategic community that this was meant for intervention in Paxtan.

Around the same time Paxtan ramped up production of fissile material & started stockpiling them apart from producing more warheads. Indian commentators especially Shyam Saran who was the chairman of the NSAB issued a public statement that this was aimed at the US something those pundits from the international community concurred with.

Left unsaid is a whether the US approached India for some sort of joint collaboration to target Paxtan. I've not come across anything in the public domain hinting at it unlike say in the wake of the 9/11 incident when Paxtan under Mussharaf was dithering & the Bush administration deputed Dy Secretary of State Richard Armitage to deliver an ultimatum. Jaswant Singh, our then Foreign Minister openly offered Indian help to attack Paxtan something which may have ironically helped Mussharaf convince his recalcitrant colleagues within the PA to stand up with the US or risk annihilation by both US & India . In the event the offer wasn't taken up by the US as Paxtan came on board . The rest is history.


The reporting of all this was very low key & no follow up articles were produced on this issue. I think the Indian security management concluded around that time that it was only matter of time before the US departed which is why we restricted our aid there to humanitarian gestures only.

The end result was that the US restricted it's intervention in Paxtan to targetted assassinations thru drone warfare . They chickened out from openly confronting the PA.
 
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Back in the day , when Obama announced the surge , there were speculations among pundits in the strategic community that this was meant for intervention in Paxtan.

Around the same time Paxtan ramped up production of fissile material & started stockpiling them apart from producing more warheads. Indian commentators especially Shyam Saran who was the chairman of the NSAB issued a public statement that this was aimed at the US something those pundits from the international community concurred with.

Left unsaid is a whether the US approached India for some sort of joint collaboration to target Paxtan. I've not come across anything in the public domain hinting at it unlike say in the wake of the 9/11 incident when Paxtan under Mussharaf was dithering & the Bush administration deputed Dy Secretary of State Richard Armitage to deliver an ultimatum. Jaswant Singh, our then Foreign Minister openly offered Indian help to attack Paxtan something which may have ironically helped Mussharaf convince his recalcitrant colleagues within the PA to stand up with the US or risk annihilation by both US & India . In the event the offer wasn't taken up by the US as Paxtan came on board . The rest is history.


The reporting of all this was very low key & no follow up articles were produced on this issue. I think the Indian security management concluded around that time that it was only matter of time before the US departed which is why we restricted our aid there to humanitarian gestures only.

The end result was that the US restricted it's intervention in Paxtan to targetted assassinations thru drone warfare . They chickened out from openly confronting the PA.
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You should know that the current chief commander of Haqqani Network ( name derived from Madrassa Haqqania network in FATA/KPK operated by ISI and funded by US, most famous being Democrat Charlie Wilson) is Son of CIA loyalist.
Similarly Mullah Omar, father of Mohammad Yaqoob too was a CIA loyalist and had pictures with numerous US officials including POTUS and of course Charlie Wilson.
Also The then Afghan president Hamid Karzai refused to prosecute Mulla Omar after his arrest in Karachi by CIA and even US let him die in prison in Pakistan than punishing him for his crimes
The landscape in Afghanistan seems murky and treacherous. But in reality it’s even much more treacherous than what it looks like.
 
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