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India using Ayani & Farkhor air bases in Tajikistan to promote terrorism

New Delhi: Indians have been supporting safe havens for terrorists through their bases in Tajikistan. The northern alliance was supported by Indian RAW through their Farkhor airbase in Tajikistan.

India also uses Ayani base in Tajikistan to support northern alliance. France24 report revealed fake story by India that Pakistan Air force is targeting the northern alliance. It is an Indian air force base in Tajikistan that is carrying out attacks on Taliban.

BJP backed Indian media outlets and journalists are continuously spreading hatred against Pakistan. In recent past, India used Afghan soil for carrying out terrorist activities in Pakistan by imparting training and funding to militants.

Recently, India has signalled a renewed interest in developing and sustaining a military base in Ayni in Tajikistan.

President Ram Nath Kovind met an Indian Air Force contingent during his visit to the country this week before returning to India Tuesday evening.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had visited Ayni in 2015, but it was not publicised. A.K. Antony, the former defence minister, had also visited the base. India has so far sought to keep its military presence discreet.

External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj is scheduled to be in Dushanbe Thursday to participate in a Council of Heads of Government Meeting of the SCO.

The Gissar Aerodrome in Ayni, just west of the Tajik capital Dushanbe, was for long a Soviet strategic station in Central Asia during the Cold War and the occupation of Afghanistan (1979-1989).

At the time, India was still operating a hospital at Farkhor in southern Tajikistan near the border with northern Afghanistan. Afghan Tajik leader Ahmed Shah Masood of the Northern Alliance — which was fighting against the Taliban — was brought to the Farkhor hospital after a suicide bomber blew himself up near him.

However, Indian military doctors could not save Masood.

At one time, New Delhi was hoping to convert Ayni into its first military base abroad. But that was cut short partly because India began hedging military relations with Russia.

“The Subramanian committee (which did a post-mortem of the Kargil war and proposed reforms) had pointed to an intelligence failure that led to the Kargil war.”

Earlier, Pakistan’s national security adviser has accused India of financing, planning and carrying out a deadly bombing in the eastern city of Lahore late last month, saying an investigation links the attack directly to India’s intelligence services.

“Today I can tell you, with full confidence and without any ambiguity that this whole attack is directly connected to India’s sponsorship of terrorism against Pakistan,” Moeed Yusuf said at a news conference in capital Islamabad.

Pakistan’s national security adviser has accused India of financing, planning and carrying out a deadly bombing in the eastern city of Lahore late last month, saying an investigation links the attack directly to India’s intelligence services.

“Today I can tell you, with full confidence and without any ambiguity that this whole attack is directly connected to India’s sponsorship of terrorism against Pakistan,” Moeed Yusuf said at a news conference in capital Islamabad on Sunday.

Pakistan has handed over a dossier on India’s terror campaign to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, urging him to prevail on New Delhi to desist from its illegal and aggressive activities.

The secretary general promised to “study the dossier and take appropriate action”, said Pakistan’s envoy to the UN Munir Akram, who presented the dossier to the UN chief on Tuesday afternoon. Pakistan reserved the right to “act in self-defence” against India’s unending aggressions, Akram warned.

Pakistan also plans to draw the attention of relevant UN bodies, including the Security Council, to India’s sponsorship of terrorism.

Tajikistan shares boundaries with China and Pakistan among others — it adjoins Afghanistan’s Wakhan Corridor, a narrow strip of land that shares a boundary with PoK and China. Tajikistan is just about 20 km from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir across the corridor.

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