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KABUL: The United States says it supports India’s continued
involvement in Afghanistan, including its “substantial” investment and aid to
the war-ravaged country.
“The United States welcomes India’s substantial investment in and
assistance to Afghanistan,” Nancy Izzo Jackson, a State Department official
in charge of Afghanistan, told a conference in Washington.
“And we will continue to support efforts to achieve an honorable and
enduring outcome in Afghanistan that preserves our investment in Afghanistan’s
future,” she told the gathering focusing on New Delhi’s role in
Afghanistan.
India has been active in its support of the Kabul government since the 2001
U.S.-led invasion that drove the Taliban from power, contributing some $3
billion in the past 18 years and building Afghanistan’s new parliament building.
India also has an influence on daily life in Afghanistan, as it does in many
countries of the region, because of its cultural offerings, including immensely
popular Bollywood films.
