Understanding India’s Strategic Game With the Taliban in Afghanistan

Understanding India’s Strategic Game With the Taliban in Afghanistan

Providing humanitarian assistance to the Afghan people has been a tool used by India for both opposing the Taliban in the past and engaging the Taliban now.

India, US, Russia “coming in” while China “went out” from the Afghan oil and gas exploration fields

Monitoring Desk: After showing the world that Afghanistan has huge potential for oil and gas exploration using Chinese expertise, Afghanistan has terminated its 25-year oil exploration and extraction contract with China’s CAPEIC in the Amu River basin and has already started negotiations with Russian firms for oil exploration. News coming from Kabul suggests that India is entering the scene with a proposal from an Indo-US consortium for oil expl…