This is exactly how players in Afghanistan’s forever war shift their stances as the larger geopolitical wheels around them turn and spin. What Ghani’s statements indicate is that those wheels are presently moving in directions favourable to India. The United States, easily the most influential cog in the Afghan wheel, and India were not aligned during the Barack Obama administration. In all of this, what India is not being asked is to become militarily involved in Afghanistan. This means New Delhi can use its preferred instruments of aid and diplomacy to advance its cause in its far northwestern neighbour.

Source: Hindustan Times October 26, 2017 05:37 UTC