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Engagement without formal endorsement is pragmatic middle path
1Strategic autonomy can be maintained without endorsement.
2Helps ensure centrality of national strategic interest by: Core border, terror and drug trafficking through golden crescent.
3Prevents big brother syndrome by: moral lecturing to Taliban avoided.
4Provides room for maneuverability by: in case of Russia-Iran-China axis shifting.
5Sri helps counter Chinese hegemony by: BRICS partnership between Afghanistan & China axis shifting.
6Promotes Indian economic growth and energy security by: connectivity through TAPI pipeline.
7Resources Indian investment by: China Dam.
8Soft-power diplomacy - long term sustain activity by: Afghanistan cricket team.
6Promotes Indian economic growth and energy security by: connectivity through TAPI pipeline.
7Resources Indian investment by: China Dam.
8Soft-power diplomacy - long term sustain activity by: Afghanistan cricket team.
India-Afghanistan relations should focus on commonalities & economic interdependence and national security.
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India-Afghanistan relations should focus on commonalities & economic interdependence and national security.
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