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US exit: India steps up Afghan army training
India is stepping up training ofAfghan National Army (ANA) in a major way, even as it also considers supply of military equipment to the fledgling force, in the backdrop of the US-led coalition preparing to withdraw from Afghanistan by 2014.
Defence ministry sources say “a major Indian effort has been launched for capability enhancement of the ANA” to ensure it can handle the internal security of Afghanistan after the progressive exit of the 100,000 foreign soldiers from there by end-2014.
India is worried about the stability of the strategically-located Afghanistan after the withdrawal because it is likely to witness a concomitant surge in the activity of the Talibanand its deadly arms like the Haqqani network, which have long worked in league with the Pakistani Army against Indian interests.
Defence minister A K Antony, in fact, recently warned the Indian military brass to be on guard to tackle “any spillover effect” in Jammu & Kashmir and elsewhere due to Pakistan’s continuing support to the Taliban and its inroads into Afghanistan.
Though India has worked largely on re-construction and developmental projects in the war-ravaged country over the last decade, it is now also boosting the “capacity-building” of ANA. If 574 ANA personnel were trained in different Indian Army establishments in 2012-13, for instance, the number will be “well over 1,000″ in 2013-14.
http://stratrisks.com/geostrat/14031
Source: http://yeoldefalseflag.com/thread-us-exit-india-steps-up-afghan-army-training
