Sunday, September 01, 2013
Kabul (BNA) Afghan officials on last Tuesday expressed satisfaction over the growing economic, political and cultural ties between Afghanistan-India and described the relations between the two nations is regional interests.
In the meantime, the Afghan government officials have said that Afghanistan intends to expand the trade and transit relations between Kabul-Delhi through Iranian Chabahar Deep Sea Port.
Talking on the matters, Janan Mosazai, spokesman to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) said, “In the trilateral meeting between Afghanistan, India and Iran, the Indian government vowed to increase investments in Afghanistan, currently, Afghanistan and India are enjoying brotherly relations and already, the Indian investors have shown willingness to invest in the country on different sectors”.
“Equipment of Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) is part of the Strategic Cooperation Partnership Agreement (SCPA) between Kabul and New Delhi and India has pledged to provide military equipment’s and training to the Afghan security forces, Mosazai added”.
In a meeting with president Karzai, the Indian foreign secretary Sujatha Singh said that relations between Afghanistan has historic dimensions and these ties have been forged on the basis of mutual respect, trust and sincerity.
“We realize perspectives of Afghan people on Kabul-Delhi relations and highly value it, India is committed on longstanding cooperation to Afghanistan including trade, transit, economic and political ties and Indian investment of Salma Dam and construction of new Afghan parliament building ratify this commitment, Indian foreign secretary Sujatha Singh said”.
Meanwhile, economic and military commentators have described the Indian investments in Afghanistan significant move to economic sustainability of Afghanistan.
Analysts believe that economic progress ensure Afghanistan’s political and economic opulence in the transformation decade.
Elaborating on the topic, economic analyst Hamidullah Faroqi said, “India meeting hauls great significance to Afghanistan, but we have to develop rule of law and security to attract international investments in the country”.
“Government of Afghanistan should provide foolproof security to the investors so that foreign investors and financial institutions feel safe while raising money in the country, in recent year, insecurity in different regions of the country have massively overshadowed investors’ trust to come in Afghanistan, Faroqi stated”.
“However, Afghanistan retains major potential in investment sector, but different factors prevented international investments in the country over the previous decade that include insecurity, none implementation of the law and nonexistence of basis infrastructures, economic expert Saifullah Saihoon said”.
The people of Afghanistan support and welcome international investments in the country.
Because, Afghanistan is in dire need of foreign investments to extract mines and renovate basic infrastructures.
In the last ten years, aside to the US, Germany and UK provided huge financial aids to Afghanistan to support the country revive its economic foundations.
