Analysis
With the return of the Taliban, Afghanistan will again become the epicentre of anti-Hindu and anti-India forces.
Updated : Aug 17, 2021, 06:44 AM IST | Edited by : Abhishek Sharma
As the Taliban captured Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, thousands of people rushed to the airport to save their lives. On Monday, a US Air Force aircraft was taking off from there and these people started clinging to this plane to leave the country.
All these people wanted to leave Afghanistan at any cost. But shortly after the plane took off, two people fell down from it and died.
Talibani, after capturing the Rashtrapati Bhavan of Afghanistan, has also reached the Parliament there. This is the same Parliament that was built by India.
If you live in Hyderabad, Bangalore, Kerala, Mumbai or any other city or village in the country and you are thinking that this crisis in Afghanistan has nothing to do with you, you are wrong.
The reason you should be worried is that now Taliban terrorists are only about 400 km away from Kashmir. Think of it like this - the Taliban is as far from Kashmir as the distance between Delhi and Shimla. The Torkham border post of Afghanistan, situated on the road connecting Peshawar of Pakistan and the capital of Afghanistan, Kabul is about 400 kilometres from the Line of Control in Kashmir and this is not a good thing for India because it now the effect of Taliban-sponsored terrorism may be visible in Kashmir.
In the 1990s, when Afghanistan was occupied by the Taliban, in the name of jihad and Islam, the Taliban had helped Pakistan and its terrorist organizations a lot and also sent their terrorists to Kashmir in several attacks.
With the return of the Taliban, Afghanistan will again become the epicentre of anti-Hindu and anti-India forces. Twenty years ago, when the Taliban government was in Afghanistan, many conspiracies were hatched against India from there, the most prominent being the terrorist incident of Kandahar hijack on 24 December 1999.
In this, the terrorists hijacked the IC 814 plane that flew from Kathmandu, Nepal to Delhi and in return got three terrorists including Masood Azhar released. This plane was landed in Kandahar and the Taliban gave full security to these terrorists.
In 2001, the Taliban also vandalized the oldest and largest Buddha statue in Bamyan. That is, after the Taliban rule returns in Afghanistan, these same pictures might come up again.