India Not To Take Up New Road Projects In Afghanistan

'India Not To Take Up New Road Projects In Afghanistan', Thaindian News, 6 May 2008

EXCERPT: "After the latest killings of its personnel by Taliban militants in Afghanistan, India’s Border Roads Organisation (BRO) Tuesday said it is unlikely to take up any more projects in the insurgency-plagued country. 'In Afghanistan, we unfortunately had casualties. We have 300 men working in the country, and about 400 personnel of ITBP (Indo-Tibetan Border Police) are there for the inner security cordon,' BRO Director General Lt. Gen. A.K. Nanda told reporters here. 'For the outer cordon of security, we have recruited around 1,400 Afghan gunmen. But one is not very sure of their loyalty,' Nanda said on the eve of the 48th raising day of the BRO. On April 12, two personnel of the BRO were killed and five injured in a suicide attack in southwest Afghanistan’s Nimroz province. Two other BRO personnel were killed earlier in the year."

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See also:
'"We can't trust Afghan security"', TimesNow, 6 May 2008
'Terror forces India out of road projects in Afghanistan', Daily News & Analysis, 6 May 2008

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