Afghanistan Prez Hamid Karzai on 2-day India visit

October 04, 2011 10:58

During his two-day visit to India starting on Tuesday, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai will hold comprehensive talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, after which the two countries are expected to ink a strategic pact to streamline various assistance programmes.

During the visit, which comes just days after the assassination of Burhanuddin Rabbani, who was heading the peace process in the war-torn country, the two sides are expected to discuss the fragile security situation in Afghanistan and the role of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence in fomenting instability in that country by supporting the Haqqani network.

According to diplomatic sources, the Afghan government's assessment is that it is futile to rely on Pakistan as it is hand-in-glove with the Haqqani group, an outfit that is closely allied with the Taliban, and there is need to have deeper ties in key areas with India.

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