India has given economic and material help for the well-being of Afghanistan. India has made huge investments in Afghanistan ranging from infrastructure to human resource development.
India’s presence in Afghanistan is to address its security concerns and help construct the regional security architecture.
India is one of the key supporters of Afghanistan. India and Afghanistan have a long-standing record of technical and economic cooperation in various fields.
India’s main focus is to support the Afghan Government and the political process in the country.
It has continued to pursue a policy of high-level engagement with Afghanistan through extensive and wide-ranging humanitarian, financial and project assistance, as well as participation in international efforts aimed at political reconciliation and economic rebuilding of Afghanistan.
Integrating Afghanistan into the South Asian regional dynamics has become a strategic imperative for India. At the 14th Summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation (SAARC) in 2007 in New Delhi, Afghanistan was granted full membership.
India always wants a peaceful Afghanistan. India has over the last two decades spent considerable diplomatic energy and made investments in developing a healthy relationship while helping in Afghanistan’s reconstruction.
Q. Describing the unstable condition of Afghanistan explain the shift in India’s Afghanistan policy and role of India in the development and stability of Afghanistan.
The Minister of External Affairs of India Smt. Sushma Swaraj paid an official visit to Dhaka on October 22-23, 2017.
The External Affairs Minister arrived for the annual meeting of the India-Bangladesh Joint Consultative Commission with her counterpart A H Mahmood Ali.
The JCC was constituted under the Framework Agreement on Cooperation for Development signed during the visit of Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh to Bangladesh in September 2011.
