The Foreign Office of Pakistan expressed concerns regarding the growing military cooperation between Kabul and New Delhi as Afghanistan expects delivery of more weapons from India.
Nafees Zakaria, spokesman for the Foreign Office of Pakistan, told reports “Such cooperation should not be to the detriment of Pakistan.”
He was apparently guesturing towards the latest attempts by Kabul and New Delhi to bolster the capabilities of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) by supplying more lethal weapons.
Zakaria further added that Afghanistan should refrain India from using its soil against Pakistan.
This comes as the Afghan army chief of staff General Qadam Shah Shaheem is expected to visit New Delhi this week to meet with the Indian officials and attract more support of New Delhi to the Afghan armed forces.
Sources have earlier said Gen. Shaheem will hand over a new wish list by Afghanistan to the Indian authorities for the delivery of weapons which will likely include more Mi-25 gunship helicopters and other small choppers.
India has remained among the top contributors in rebuilding of Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban regime and has spent around $2 billion in various sectors in the country.
Afghanistan received three Mi-25 gunship helicopters from India late in December last year which was the first delivery of sophisticated military equipment to Afghanistan in a bid to help improve the capabilities of the Afghan forces.
In the meantime the top US General in Afghanistan General John Nicholson has welcomed the support by India and said New Delhi should furhter help with the equipment process of the Afghan forces.
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Pakistan is concerned about the military cooperation between India and Afghanistan. Wow! Does Pakistan consider Afghanistan its fiefdom, which is perhaps the real meaning of their fractured ‘strategic depth’ doctrine? India has a been a good friend, which has invested heavily in infrastructure and social projects in Afghistan, while Pakistan has only been training and sending killers across the border, a fact acknowledged even by the eternally optimistic Mr Ashraf Ghani, who has seen his repeated (servile?) overtured rebuffed and no let up in the attacks, the latest the one on the American University.
I wish Afghanistan would tell Pakistan in the clearest possible terms that it is a sovereign state, free to choose its friends. They should also tell Pakistan to stuff its concvern where it belongs!
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Pakistan dont care about afghan military, What it have or not. Not Pakistans business nor interest as long as Pakistans borders with Afghanistan are safe and nobody violates it. Nobody in Pakistan give a dam in capabiities of Afghan army.
This Terrorist Fascist Apartheid Punjabi excuse for a state , should be the last to express concern over the legitimate dealings of two sovereign governments and friends who has suffered multiple massacres on its citizens by the proxies of this Pakistani Punjabi Terrorist state . They should learn to be come civilized and treat others with the same respect as they want for the Pakistani Punjabi of Lahore and Faislabad. The world is now fully aware of this Terrorist Nuclear military junta and its blackmailing of the international community. The Western governments should now turn the screws on their Punjabi ally and tell them in no uncertain terms they need to withdrwa their support for Terrorist proxies, Daesh ,Alqaida and all those who slaughter the Afghans unrelentingly. US,Russia shld arm Afghanistan with real fire power and stop with their jokes with Punjabi Raj of Pakistan.