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India Keen to Help Afghanistan: Karzai

: Dec 30, 2013 - : 8:52 am

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai says India is “not shying away” from providing military equipment and training to his country.
“India is conducting itself very wisely, India is concerned about the impact about such a relationship with Afghanistan on the region, and while India is weighing that India is also not shying away from providing assistance to Afghanistan. And in terms of India’s support to Afghanistan in military equipment and training the facts are much better than what appears in the press,” he said, adding on a lighter note, that if he reveals the military help it will not remain a secret,” Karzai says.
Karzai was in India on his 14th visit and the third in a year. He has come on an invite by the Pune-based Symbiosis University where he is to give a lecture.
“It’s better than what we know publicly. India wants to help us, and is right to be wise about it and it wants to help the region be free of terrorism, and we have full understanding and satisfaction,” he says.
During his last visit to India in May, he had handed over a list of military equipment – that includes battle tanks, field guns, mortars, military aircraft and trucks – needed for the Afghan security forces. Around 350 Afghan army officers are currently undergoing training in India, while 1,400 have been trained so far since 2003.
Afghan army officers are trained at the National Defence Academy (NDA) Khadakvasla, the Indian Military Academy (IMA) in Dehradun and the Officers Training Academy (OTA) in Chennai.

 

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