{"id":200346,"date":"2022-08-17T17:54:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T12:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=200346"},"modified":"2022-08-17T17:54:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T12:24:30","slug":"the-taliban-factors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-taliban-factors\/","title":{"rendered":"The Taliban factors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: The post is based on an article <strong>\u201cThe Taliban Factor\u201d<\/strong> published in the <strong>Business Standard<\/strong> on 17<sup>th<\/sup> August 2022.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus:<\/strong> GS 2 International relations; Bilateral relations<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance: <\/strong>India-Afghanistan relations<\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>Recently<strong>, <\/strong>the Taliban regime completed its one year of rule in Afghanistan. Now is the time to assess its relations with India.<\/p>\n<p>India has long enjoyed a benign reputation in Afghanistan because of its traditional developmental role in that country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>India\u2019s Foreign Policy Challenges<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Taliban 2.0 has imposed its vague notion of an <strong>eighth-century Islamic state <\/strong>and established its Sharia law that overrides human rights and oppresses women.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban lacks a <strong>constructive governing system<\/strong> and skill in the art of <strong>state-building.<\/strong> Therefore, the regime could not rebuild Afghanistan, which has been ruined by decades of war and lack basic institutions of governance.<\/p>\n<p>India is finding it difficult to establish <strong>diplomatic ties<\/strong> with the Taliban regime. India closed its embassy and withdrew all personnel due to attacks on Indians.<\/p>\n<p>Both <strong>Taliban and Pakistan<\/strong> have been <strong>strong supporters<\/strong> of each other. Further, India had supported the opposition alliance against\u00a0Taliban 1.0. that ruled from 1996 to October 2001, which did not go in the interest of Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan has become a safe haven for <strong>terrorists and terror outfits<\/strong> who want to recruit soldiers. For example, the Taliban has given shelter to <strong>al-Zawahiri<\/strong>, who was recently killed by the US. This is the reason there has been an upsurge in a terrorist activity like recruitment along the Indo-Pakistan border since the reading down of <strong>Articles 370 and 35A of the Constitution of India. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>New Developments<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Recently, India became the <strong>15<sup>th<\/sup> nation <\/strong>that <strong>signaled rapprochement<\/strong> by reopening its embassy in Kabul. The intended objective behind it is, to closely monitor and coordinate the <strong>humanitarian assistance<\/strong> that is being given by India.<\/p>\n<p>At present, India can forge more <strong>durable ties<\/strong> with the Taliban on account of <strong>manifest tensions<\/strong> between Islamabad and Kabul. For example, the Taliban refused to accede to a <strong>Pakistani government request<\/strong> to surrender <strong>Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan elements<\/strong> sheltering across the border. As a result, Islamabad informed the whereabouts of al-Qaeda head Ayman al-Zawahiri to the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on an article \u201cThe Taliban Factor\u201d published in the Business Standard on 17th August 2022. Syllabus: GS 2 International relations; Bilateral relations Relevance: India-Afghanistan relations News: Recently, the Taliban regime completed its one year of rule in Afghanistan. Now is the time to assess its relations with India. India has&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-taliban-factors\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Taliban factors<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10343,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[10503,212],"class_list":["post-200346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-business-standard","tag-gs-paper-2","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704913319},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10343"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}