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  Just to gain good graces in Afghanistan for India's anti-Pakistan policy. Nothing benevolent here at all. Just like war profiteering blood oil purchases from Russia.
context: I don't know why so many people are butt hurt over this. India wasn't the one who promised freedom to Afghan people and ran away handing them over to Taliban. Afghanis now selling their kids and organs to just to get food. India will not have a blind eye to this like America and Europe did. It's their mess , India just trying to keep it as clean as it can. If you people are having a problem with it then it's just your problem. As Indians we are proud of what our government is doing in Afghanistan >
  
  I suppose my fear here is just that we’re kinda in a lose-lose situation. Giving aid to Afghanistan, while the morally right thing to do, could help keep the Taliban in power, which could help perpetuate suffering and oppression in the region. Not helping, while horrific and honestly a terrible thing to do, has at least a chance that the Taliban may just fall apart on their own. Of course it could also just give them a way to blame their faults in others. I don’t like helping to perpetuate the Taliban but I also hate to let their people suffer. It’s just lose-lose >
  
  I don't think India has given anything that can be repurposed for military use. Just food and medicine aid and educational and hospital buildings. And some community based project. >
  
  And that’s good, but take Hungary for an example, the nation has a fair share of problems and an increasingly authoritarian leader. They also get a lot of money from the EU, so life for the average person in Hungary is relatively good. That can breed complacency in the face of authoritarian governance, so as long as the people keep good living conditions they have no reason to dislike their leader even if Orban has a lot of stuff to dislike him for. I suppose my fear is that this dynamic could happen on Afghanistan. Although I admit this could also give India enough leverage over Afghanistan to curb their worst actions. But that’s my thought process of how even giving humanitarian aid could perpetuate the Taliban >
  
  If the Afghan people really didn't want the Taliban they would've resisted. It's easy to wonder if the people even think beyond their tribe ethnic religious groups? >
  
  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 72%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  New Delhi announced a development aid of $ 25 million for Afghanistan in the Union Budget 2023-24.
  The relations between Afghanistan and India were disturbed when the Taliban retook Kabul in August 2021, and most of the projects funded by India stopped abruptly.
  "There were various projects in Afghanistan which India was funding. If India resumes work on these projects, it will boost relations between the two countries and eliminate distrust", Shaheen said.
  
  
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  Relations with the Taliban, lovely. >
  
  I mean India still does not recognise the Taliban government but since we have to live in this neighborhood a humanitarian crisis would be horrible for us as well so it makes sense to try and stabilise the country >
  
  That'd be stabilizing a government that bans women from education, which is a humanitarian crisis in of itself. >
  
  Yeah but the other option is a mass migration and increase in violence in the neighborhood especially at a time when literally 3 countries in South Asia are functioning at the brink. Even in Afghanistan Indian food aid had helped against mass starvation at extreme levels