Indian Airlines.
ORGANIZATION
Indian Airlines Limited or Indian (Hindi: इंडियन एयरलाइंस or इंडियन) was India's stat
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Air India
ORGANIZATION
New Delhi
PLACE
Boeing Dreamliner
PRODUCT
Boeing
ORGANIZATION
Indian National Congress
ORGANIZATION
Bharatiya Janata Party
ORGANIZATION
Rajiv Gandhi
PERSON
Kashmir, India
PERSON
By Rajeev Sharma
The importance of Iran for India cannot be over stated. Iran is a vital cog in the wheel of the Indian scheme of things for reaching out to Afghanistan. But the question is: whether both India and Iran are about to lose their leverage on Afghanistan?
The good news is that Iran is as uncomfortable as India on the back-room developments with regard to Afghanistan as the United States-led international community seems hell bent on good Taliban taking over the land-locked country in the post-2014 scenario of withdrawing American forces from Afghanistan.
The bad news is that India may have to, after all, live with a regime in Kabul in 2014 that is friendly to Pakistan. This may well be a nightmarish scenario for India that has seen for itself how anti-India jihadist forces based in Afghanistan aided terrorism in India during the Taliban regime of 1996-2001. The hijacking of the Indian Airlines Kathmandu-New Delhi flight IC 814 to Kandahar on December 24, 1999 is just a chilly reminder of what a pro-Pakistan Taliban regime in Kabul can do to India.
These nuggets of valuable information were thrown up on 2 January, 2012 when Iran's National Security Advisor Saeed Jalili came face-to-face with Indian media during a 80-minute interaction at Indian think tank Observer Research Foundation (ORF) premises which was kept confined to select Indian media only.
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