New Delhi watches Kabul closely. Sadanand @Dhume @AEI @WSJOpinion GLXXG
Aug 13, 2021, 12:49 AM
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Photo: An edict of Ashoka from Kandahar, now in the Kabul museum. .
Relations between the people of Afghanistan and India traces to the Indus Valley Civilisation. Following Alexander the Great's brief occupation, the successor state of the Seleucid Empire controlled the region known today as Afghanistan. In 305 BCE, they ceded much of it to the Indian Maurya Empire as part of an alliance treaty.
"Kabul has a castle celebrated for its strength, accessible only by one road. In it there are Musulmáns, and it has a town, in which are infidels from Hind." — Istahkrí, 921 CE
Relations between the people of Afghanistan and India traces to the Indus Valley Civilisation. Following Alexander the Great's brief occupation, the successor state of the Seleucid Empire controlled the region known today as Afghanistan. In 305 BCE, they ceded much of it to the Indian Maurya Empire as part of an alliance treaty.
"Kabul has a castle celebrated for its strength, accessible only by one road. In it there are Musulmáns, and it has a town, in which are infidels from Hind." — Istahkrí, 921 CE
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New Delhi watches Kabul closely. Sadanand @Dhume @AEI @WSJOpinion GLXXG
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