Changing contour in India-Afghanistan relations: A study of Taliban regime

Afghanistan is a land locked state in Asia Continent and always be a centre point for terrorist, druggists and Islamic fundamentalists. These have lead by Taliban and it has widely supported by Pakistan’s Inter Service Intelligence (ISI), which has main accused in terrorist activities in India. The motto of this organization to establish a Islamic republic, where there is no place for women, minorities, civil society and other sections of the society, those who are opposing their will. This factor is a main hurdle in India-Afghanistan relations. However, India- Afghanistan relationship is based on historical, economic and cultural links. In the recent past before the re-emergence of Taliban, both have signed Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA) in October 2011 to strengthen their bilateral relations. This SPA between the two countries provides support to reconstruct Afghanistan’s institutions and infrastructure. It has further provided educational and technical help to reconstruct indigenous Afghan capability in diverse areas, inclusive process of peace and reconciliation, providing duty free reach to the Indian market, encouraging investment in natural resources and promoting the requirement for a continuous and long-term assurance to Afghanistan. But, on the day of August 15, 2021 in which Taliban has captured the capital of Afghanistan’s Kabul after almost two decades, as the President of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani left the country and took the political asylum in the United Arab Emirate (UAE). It has happened so quickly that no one imagined this. Everyone in the world is deeply concern about the people of Afghanistan particularly women and children. It has created new threat and instability in the region and also created new challenges to India’s foreign policy, as it has spent billions of dollars in Afghanistan’s development in last two decades. In the present study an efforts will be made to know about the re-emergence of Taliban in Afghanistan. How and why they are great threat to humanity of this region? What role they have played before and now they will do? The present paper also examines the situation of women and children in Afghanistan? Why the ruling Taliban is big challenge and threat to the security and peace of South Asian region in general and India in particular? The impact on India’s security will also be analyzed in this paper. Various issues related to India-Afghanistan relations are also the main part of this study.