Afghanistan Wants Indian Help Training Troops

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Afghanistan Wants Indian Help Training Troops


NEW DELHI - Afghanistan is seeking India's help in training its troops to fight insurgents.
The request will be conveyed to senior Indian defense planners by visiting Afghan Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak, who arrived here April 8, sources in the Indian Defence Ministry said.
Related TopicsWhile New Delhi has ruled out direct involvement of its forces in Afghanistan, the government will consider training Afghan military personnel at Indian institutes, a senior Defence Ministry official here said.
Wardak's weeklong visit to India will include a stop in the northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, where Indian troops are fighting Muslim extremists from across the Pakistan border.
Wardak, heading a seven-member delegation, is set to hold talks with Indian Defence Minister A.K. Antony and top brass of India's military on security issues and will be the first Afghan defense minister to visit Jammu and Kashmir.
He also will visit state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. and the Air Force's Training Command, both in Bangalore. Afghanistan is keen to get its air force personnel trained in India, Defence Ministry sources here said, adding that HAL is also expecting an order from Kabul for its Advanced Light Helicopter.
Afghanistan also hopes to get training and maintenance support from India for its military's 10 Russian-made Mi-35 helicopter gunships.



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What Afghanistan wants to see on television


By David Blair in Kabul
Last Updated: 1:46am BST 01/04/2008
When Afghans turn on their televisions, they do not want to be regaled with current affairs or debates on the Koran. Instead, they want Indian soap operas, complete with sari-clad women and convoluted love stories.

Tolo TV, the country's most popular broadcaster, was quick to learn this lesson. The Indian dramas which dominate peak time get 10 or 11 million viewers; news programmes cause a national turn-off.

Afghan television is the most visible symbol of the country's transformation since the Taliban's downfall in 2001.

The ancien regime condemned television as "un-Islamic", closed down every broadcaster and publicly crushed thousands of TV sets with bulldozers.

Today, Afghanistan has 13 stations, yet the old suspicion of television as a corrupting, Westernising influence remains strong. Saad Mohseni, head of the Moby Media Group which includes Tolo TV, said the authorities were "not tolerant or relaxed at all".

He added: "President Karzai himself has been quite tolerant and if push comes to shove, he'll defend the free press. But the government is not one individual, it's a number of movements, parties and ideologies.

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