How has the Indian mission in Kabul been empowered to promote bilateral trade?
Like any Indian diplomatic mission, the embassy will be helping the promotion of trade between the two countries. The embassy in Kabul has a commercial office and there is an officer in charge of reconstruction and development work. Now with the start of relevant air services businessmen have started coming. Once the air services increase, the old trade ties can start again. In any case, as far as exports from Afghanistan to India by land are concerned, there are no real problems. Do you think India should have joined the International Security Assistance Force for Afghanistan? We never join such operations. We only go in for participation in United Nations forces. In any case, when it comes to the ISAF, neighbouring countries were not invited to join. The nearest was Bangladesh, which did offer but was turned down. How long have you now spent in your current job? I took over on November 1. But I’ve been associated with the Bonn agreement and the interim administration. I was among the
