A Muslim rights group has cautioned Prime Minister Manmohan Singh against sending Indian troops to Afghanistan to beef up the US-led forces, saying this would have “severe consequences”.
“Even the slightest reflection of being with the American-led forces in Afghanistan would have severe consequences and would send disastrous signals not only to common Afghans but also to the domestic population in India, apart from putting the minute Hindu and Sikh population in Afghanistan at great risk,” Navaid Hamid, secretary of the South Asian Council for Minorities (SACM), said in a letter to the prime minister.
Recalling the fallout of India's foray into Sri Lanka in the 1980s to broker peace between the government and Tamil Tigers, Hamid maintained it would be “disastrous, politically and historically, to align with the forces which are messed up in the situation created by their misadventures in the troubled nation”. |