Indian abducted: Team to leave for Afghanistan
April 29, 2006 21:47 IST
A high-level team of officials is being deputed to Afghanistan to assist in efforts for securing the release of Indian engineer K Suryanarayan from the clutches of the Taliban.
The team will be headed by Joint Secretary in External Affairs Ministry K B S Katoch, official sources told PTI.
The team is expected to leave by Saturday night, they said.
The decision comes in the wake of the Taliban, abductors of the engineer, threatening to kill their hostage if all Indians did not leave Afghanistan by Sunday.
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India proposed deployment of paramilitary CRPF in Afghanistan
Sunday, April 30th, 2006 at 12:44 am
New Delhi - Yet another kidnapping of an Indian engineer in Afghanistan has taken place even as the government of President Hamid Karzai is considering New Delhi’s proposal of deploying its paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel to guard Indians working in the risky countryside.
India had made this proposal in the wake of the killing five months ago of Ramankutty Maniyappan, an engineer of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) working on the Zaranz-Delaram highway construction.
Karzai was reminded of the proposal when he was here on a visit earlier this month.
Diplomatic sources say that besides slow decision-making, the Karzai government is also hamstrung by Pakistani sensitivities about the presence of around 2,000 Indians working on various infrastructure and development projects in Afghanistan.
Islamabad has time and again protested at India having four consulates in Afghanistan, two of them in Jalalabad and Kandahar that are near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
Pakistan keeps accusing the Indian consulates of fomenting trouble in the tribal areas of North and South Waziristan where Pakistani security forces are constantly locked in a war of attrition with the Taliban and remnants of the Al Qaeda.
Who is behind Indian engineer K. Suryanarayan’s kidnapping is not still clear. Sources say Qaeri Yusuf Ahmadi, who claimed to speak for the Taliban is not the usual spokesman. Claims by the Taliban are generally done in the name of its supremo Mullah Omar.
Osama bin Laden too has never blamed India or Indians. However, his deputy, Ayman al-Zaweherie, last week for the first time spoke of ‘a Christian-Hindu-Zionist conspiracy’. One reason for this could be the perceptions about growing Indo-US relations in the wake of President George W. Bush’s visit to India and the nuclear deal.
It is more likely that the kidnapping has been engineered by Pakistani agencies supporting the forces opposed to the Indian presence. A likely source of trouble could be Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the one-time Mujahideen leader of the anti-Soviet campaign in Afghanistan who later accused India of supporting his arch-rival, the late Ahmed Shah Massoud.
These raghead shitbirds understand only one language, violence. In situations like this it is necessary to speak their language and speak it a lot louder. It's time we start killing these bastards and sticking their heads on posts for all to see.
Indians are only too grateful to accept this help since they have been fighting this war against terrorism, Muslim extremism, and Jihad for almost 1,000 years, and the Israelis have been dealing with it for 50 years, while the Americans and British have stepped up their dealing with it since September 11, 2001.
Remember that Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and others in the area (all modern day Islamic nations) were all a part of Greater India (Maha-Bharata) at one time.
The proof of this is that the two major Indian epic stories (written in the same style and tradition of the Greek Illiad and the Odyssey) called the "Ramayana" and "Mahabharata" repeatedly reference great Hindu kingdoms and cities found in these modern day Islamic nations (e.g. Kandahar in Afghanistan used to be Gandar, India, etc.)
i worked in kabul for awhile last year and i met a lot of these indian engineers working on that highway, it is an indian project. they usually stayed at my hotel and we ate together. they are all the nicest guys, really trying to do good. all highly trained and educated engineers, very humble and kind. my heart goes out to this guy's family and his coworkers. and his afghan driver.