Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
06NEWDELHI1230
2006-02-16 12:57:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy New Delhi
Cable title:
INDIA BUILDING UP ITS SECURITY CONTIGENT IN
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C O N F I D E N T I A L NEW DELHI 001230
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/15/2016
TAGS: PREL PGOV EAID MARR IN AF
SUBJECT: INDIA BUILDING UP ITS SECURITY CONTIGENT IN
AFGHANISTAN, NOT "COMMANDOS"
REF: NEW DELHI 548
Classified By: PolCouns Geoff Pyatt for Reasons 1.4 (B, D)
C O N F I D E N T I A L NEW DELHI 001230
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/15/2016
TAGS: PREL PGOV EAID MARR IN AF
SUBJECT: INDIA BUILDING UP ITS SECURITY CONTIGENT IN
AFGHANISTAN, NOT "COMMANDOS"
REF: NEW DELHI 548
Classified By: PolCouns Geoff Pyatt for Reasons 1.4 (B, D)
1. (C) Media reports that India was deploying "commandos" or
"sec ret police" to Afghanistan were "rubbish," Joint
Secretary (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran) Dilip Sinha told
SIPDIS
PolCouns and POLOFF on February 16. However, the growing
security threats to India's Border Roads Organization (BRO)
construction team working on the Zaranj-Delaram road in
Western Afghanistan did lead the GOI to decide to gradually
increase the strength of its garrison of Indo-Tibetan Border
Police (ITBP) -- a national police force, not a military unit
-- guarding the BRO camps and work sites (reftel). The ITBP
deployment has risen to 120 from the previous 80-person
strength, and over time will increase by another 120.
However, the time taken to identify officers to take from
other domestic assignments and brief them for the Afghanistan
mission meant that this growth would be slow, Sinha said.
The GOA is fully aware of India's deployment of personnel,
Sinha added, and the rules of engagement (ROE) have not
changed. (NOTE: Under the current ROE, the ITBP provides
static perimeter security to BRO sites, while local Afghan
police provide mobile security. ITBP is allowed to provide
roving security for cash transport. END NOTE) The GOI has
not yet decided how to beef up security for two other
important construction projects requiring increased project
personnel in the near future, the Salma dam and Pul-i-Khumri
to Kabul power transmission line. However, Sinha implied
that these projects too would require site security that the
Afghan police alone cannot provide.
2. (U) Visit New Delhi's Classified Website:
(http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/sa/newdelhi/)
MULFORD
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/15/2016
TAGS: PREL PGOV EAID MARR IN AF
SUBJECT: INDIA BUILDING UP ITS SECURITY CONTIGENT IN
AFGHANISTAN, NOT "COMMANDOS"
REF: NEW DELHI 548
Classified By: PolCouns Geoff Pyatt for Reasons 1.4 (B, D)
1. (C) Media reports that India was deploying "commandos" or
"sec ret police" to Afghanistan were "rubbish," Joint
Secretary (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran) Dilip Sinha told
SIPDIS
PolCouns and POLOFF on February 16. However, the growing
security threats to India's Border Roads Organization (BRO)
construction team working on the Zaranj-Delaram road in
Western Afghanistan did lead the GOI to decide to gradually
increase the strength of its garrison of Indo-Tibetan Border
Police (ITBP) -- a national police force, not a military unit
-- guarding the BRO camps and work sites (reftel). The ITBP
deployment has risen to 120 from the previous 80-person
strength, and over time will increase by another 120.
However, the time taken to identify officers to take from
other domestic assignments and brief them for the Afghanistan
mission meant that this growth would be slow, Sinha said.
The GOA is fully aware of India's deployment of personnel,
Sinha added, and the rules of engagement (ROE) have not
changed. (NOTE: Under the current ROE, the ITBP provides
static perimeter security to BRO sites, while local Afghan
police provide mobile security. ITBP is allowed to provide
roving security for cash transport. END NOTE) The GOI has
not yet decided how to beef up security for two other
important construction projects requiring increased project
personnel in the near future, the Salma dam and Pul-i-Khumri
to Kabul power transmission line. However, Sinha implied
that these projects too would require site security that the
Afghan police alone cannot provide.
2. (U) Visit New Delhi's Classified Website:
(http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/sa/newdelhi/)
MULFORD