EXPLORING INDIA'S STRATEGY IN AFGHANISTAN AFTER US WITHDRAWAL TO DEAL WITH THE TALIBAN

India's relationship with Afghanistan varies in various fields ranging from Afghan students studying in India to India providing medical services, infrastructure-based services, and mainly trade services which is crucial to both the countries for which India has been working for decades to establish a route for enhanced connection of trade, energy, and transit from Central Asian region to South Asian region countries. But the invasion of the Taliban into Afghanistan has led to a situation of uncertainties regarding the relations of both the concerned countries, thus heavily impacting the trade, plans, investments, exports, and imports via Afghanistan. Although the Taliban has publicized their plans for the continuation of the earlier set plan, the changes in foreign policy, past relationships, and the current fragile state will affect the plan, and in order to set up Indian companies in the country, India has to set clear views on the same.