: What Taliban’s rise in Afghanistan means for India’s Chabahar Port project in Iran #IndiaNEWS The spectre of the collapse of the Ashraf Ghani government of Afghanistan and the takeover by the ragtag

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What Taliban’s rise in Afghanistan means for India’s Chabahar Port project in Iran #IndiaNEWS
The spectre of the collapse of the Ashraf Ghani government of Afghanistan and the takeover by the ragtag group of Taliban, even while the United States has left the country to its miserable fate, is increasingly driving a nail in many bilateral and multilateral arrangements between Kabul and the world. Undoubtedly, the most hurt would be India and its much-vaunted project of the Chabahar Port in Iran’s east, which was meant to allow New Delhi an opportunity to side-step Pakistan and take the land route to Afghanistan and Central Asia.Dream gone sourNow Chabahar, from Iran and India’s perspective, seems like a dead investment – a dream gone sour.“Indians just took too much time to complete the project,� claimed an Iranian source. “Now, changed circumstances and alternative connectivity routes are being conjured up by other countries to make Chabahar irrelevant.�He may be right.Much of the blame for the slow pace at which the Chabahar project progressed should rest on India and its over-cautious attitude. The current government in Delhi did not want to do anything to antagonise the US government after it had imposed sanctions on Iran.Now, the Americans have partnered with Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan to make a new connectivity corridor!So where does it leave India?Ironically, India’s Chabahar engagement,...Read more

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