India stepping up to the challenge of post-2014 Afghanistan

November 12, 2012 14:56

Racing through the deserted streets of Kabul at nighttime, you are likely to be stopped at street corners by policemen once, twice or even more. If you are a South Asian, as I am, their guard is up even more.

"Pakistani or Indian?' the cop barks out as you lower your window. When I answer "Indian', he wants me to produce a passport to prove that, and as it happens, I am not carrying one. So I am pulled out of the car in the freezing cold and given a full body search, with the policemen muttering under his breath in Dari that everyone goes around claiming to be an Indian, especially Pakistanis. Read

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