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Re: Kabul's fall a threat to India's security - The Economic Times
Political Bureau
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30 September 1996
Title : Kabul's fall a threat to India's security
Author : Political Bureau
Publication : The Economic Times
Date : September 30, 1996
The fall of Kabul to radical Taliban forces and the
hanging of former president Najibullah has caused tremen-
dous nervousness here over the country's security.
While the foreign secretary preferred to keep mum on the
development and did not go beyond saying that the coun-
try's stand remained the same, political parties ex-
pressed their apprehensions about the potential of radi-
cal Islamic forces to create trouble in Jammu and Kash-
mir.
The Pakistan-backed forces pledging to impose the rule of
Shariat on Afghanistan, are seen as potential trouble
makers in the north-west region.
Describing the hanging of Najibullah as "barbarous," the
CPI-M, politburo member Prakash Karat said the set typi-
fied the kind of regime now installed in Kabul. He urged
the international community to take immediate steps to
halt the continuing massacre in Afghanistan by a group
with known to the extremists and fundamentalist. The
CPI, in a statement urged the government to take up the
matter with the United Nations as forces inimical to
India's interest had taken up. It said Taliban, "who
every-one knows is a force propped up, armed and financed
by Pakistan" has taken over. This development will have
"serious" repercussions in the north-western region of
the sub-continent and the security environment of the
country as a whole.
Briefing newspersons, the BJP vice-president Mr K L
Sharma said these developments endangered peace and
security of the entire region and the party apprehended
that with the Taliban in effective control in Afghanis-
tan, Pakistan will divert "unemployed Mujahideen fighters
with their weapons to J&K and other areas as they did
after the withdrawal of the Soviets from Afghanistan".
Mr Sharma said the government should not allow itself to
be overtaken by events and "the emerging security threats
should be assessed and a strategy evolved in the areas of
diplomacy and national security".
A Janata Dal leader observed that there was growing
instability in the regions, with developments in Pakistan
not auguring well for the country either. He said appre-
hensions about the dismissal of Bhutto government, the
fall of Kabul to radicals propped up by Islamabad, and
uneasiness in Bangladesh were highly disturbing.
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