{"id":40679,"date":"2019-01-18T16:57:54","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T11:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=40679"},"modified":"2019-01-18T16:57:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T11:27:54","slug":"the-seats-around-the-afghan-round-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-seats-around-the-afghan-round-table\/","title":{"rendered":"The seats around the Afghan round table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/lead\/the-seats-around-the-afghan-round-table\/article26018422.ece\"><strong>The seats around the Afghan round table<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Important Facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Issue:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>United States is likely to withdraw troops from Afghanistan after pulling troops from Syria.\u00a0 Such probable future step demands reform in India&#8217;s Afghanistan Policy<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Analysis of US Afghanistan Policy:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Currently US spends $45billion\/year on Afghan security and economic development<\/li>\n<li>In last 18 years, US lost 2400 troops and paid cost of $800bn on US forces and $105bn on Afghanistan rebuilding efforts with no effective output<\/li>\n<li><strong>US Afghanistan 2017 policy<\/strong> mandated 5000 US troops, boosting afghan forces capabilities and holding Pakistan accountable for US aid<\/li>\n<li>After a year, state of affairs have not changed as Taliban holds ground strongly in Afghanistan<\/li>\n<li>US has <strong>lost its goodwill among Afghan people<\/strong> and stationing troops looks liability for US<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Status of Afghanistan Security forces:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Afghanistan forces are facing <strong>high attrition<\/strong> with about 3,000 casualties since 2017 when they took over combat operation from US against Taliban<\/li>\n<li>Such status is mainly due to lack of effective training and equipments<\/li>\n<li>Currently, Afghanistan forces <strong>strength is more than 10% lower than sanctioned strength<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Special forces have been raised with strong capabilities but their numbers are limited and are <strong>depended on US airlift and intelligent imagery<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Status of Afghanistan Governance System:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2004, Afghanistan adopted <strong>US style strong Presidential system<\/strong> but <strong>institutions of legislature, judiciary and civil societies for check and balance are missing<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Parliamentary election result held in October 2018 has still not been announced on reason of election rigging and Presidential election has been postponed to July 2019<\/li>\n<li>Possible planning <strong>Loya Jirga<\/strong> (tribal assembly) to draw future course of actions related to US and Taliban<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Status of Taliban:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Taliban has been growing strong as can observed various fora had been instituted for negotiation with it like Quad, Moscow regional conference<\/li>\n<li><strong>Poppy production increased four times since 2002<\/strong> financing Taliban insurgency operations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>India&#8217;s Afghanistan policy:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>India advocate any peace negotiation should be <strong>afghan-led, afghan-owned and afghan-controlled<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>India has earned <strong>strong goodwill among all Afghanistan ethnic<\/strong> <strong>groups<\/strong> mainly due to creation of social infrastructure projects including assistance for parliamentary building<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>India&#8217;s Future Action: <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As per this Article, India <strong>need strong and active diplomacy engagement with Afghanistan both officially and non- officially<\/strong> and should be <strong>strong partner in any peace negotiations and in developmental process<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The seats around the Afghan round table Important Facts: Issue: United States is likely to withdraw troops from Afghanistan after pulling troops from Syria.\u00a0 Such probable future step demands reform in India&#8217;s Afghanistan Policy Analysis of US Afghanistan Policy: Currently US spends $45billion\/year on Afghan security and economic development In last 18 years, US lost&hellip; 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