After the fall of Kabul, it seems like poor Afghan people have nowhere to go. All their borders are sealed and heavily guarded by Pakistan and the Taliban. Kabul airport is the only place in the country that has a semblance of order in a chaotic environment. Just imagine the situation inside Afghanistan hinterlands, if we have to call the apocalyptic scenes of people falling from Airplane wings as a sign of order. Sleepy Joe Biden has finally announced that ‘Nation-building was never a US Goal in Afghanistan. With Amnesty international only playing condemnation games Afghan people see a ray of hope in the humanitarian record of India.
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With India taking up significant efforts towards repatriation of Indians stranded and evacuation of Afghan people, the next natural expectation from India will be granting citizenship to Afghan nationals being brought to India. But, Geopolitical games do not act like a sprint race, it acts more like a marathon where we have to regulate our pace at different specific intervals. Providing Afghani nationals citizenship status will turn out to be a culturally, economically, demographically and even politically devastating step for India.
India’s GDP contracted by 7.3% owing to China, released COVID-19 induced lockdown. Though it has shown some signs of improvement, the positive economic growth has to be channelized towards re resurrecting the economy of the country, rather than taking the extra economic burden of establishing an alien population inside the country. India has a reserve surplus food grains of 1 year for 1.35 billion people, it can provide refuge to Afghani nationals and take care of their calorie demands. But India’s resource capacity need not translate into Afghan nationals being perpetually dependent on India.
With more than 1.4 billion people stranded in 3,287,263 Km and diversity as huge as it can get anywhere around the world, Afghans will create more problems for India. The thrust on Islamic culture by refugees does not fit in India’s democracy. India has been planning to adopt a two children policy for quite some time now, this is bound to create ruckus among them. The idea of converting to Hinduism, Sikhism and getting citizenship through the CAA route is not sustainable as conversion will be for the sake of citizenship and not because someone believes in the religion.
The United States did help the Afghans with $ 83 billion, it did not yield any result in 20 years. Indian help won’t do anything to them. India should refuse to give citizenship to Afghan nationals, it should only provide them with shelter, provide them food etc. under its capacity as it did to East Pakistanis for a brief period. We should make them able to apply for refugee status to other European nations as well as Islamic countries like UAE, SAUDI ARABIA and other OIC countries and raise voices for them on as many international forums as possible. Other than citizenship status, there are thousands of other ways to help the people of Afghanistan.
Giving them citizenship will be akin to bringing home a beggar to an already crunched household of yours, you never know when that beggar will re-prioritize his other needs and start to occupy your house, calling it his own. With 4,046 applications of Hindus still pending before the Government, we should allow Islamic culture based Afghan nationals to be homogenized as citizens inside Islamic nations. The overemphasis on liberal emigration led to a decline in the white population in the United States. Certainly, we do not want our Hindus, Sikhs and other brethren to become a numerical minority in a country established on the bloodlines of their forefathers.
No to Afghans. Only let in the Hindu/Sikhs from Afghanistan. We do not want any Muslims from any other country. We have enough of the problems already.
No Xtians as well or Sikhs (most will become Khalystanis)
India is the only country where available land mass is too less compared to existing population, that means India is already have four times more population than it can accommodate and existing resources are stretched too thin and can’t afford to take anymore refugees.
If you look past, India had accommodated millions of refugees during the 1947 partition and during Bangla war.
So GOI should stop giving refuge for many decades. Citizenship should only be given to India origin people like Hindus, Sikhs.
For the native Afghans, there are 56 other countries in the world they can go to and share same religion.
While the Narendra Modi govt will capitalise on the Refugee Issue and grant them Citizenship by the by going by its desire to burnish it’s credentials and make its pitch to anoint Modi for a Nobel Peace Prize, it may not come as a surprise if Non-BJP ruled states, especially the likes of Shiv Sena in MH, will see this as an opportunity to pass the Secularism-test by wholeheartedly showcasing their willingness in welcoming Afghan nationals into their respective states when things boil down to the issue of Resettlement.
The BJP/RSS is steadily moving away from its Hindutva agenda for quite some while now under the covering fire of party intellectuals and the Media in the interests of near and long-term Electoral Prospects.
We will soon approach a time when some proverbial straw is sure to break the Camel’s/ Hindu’s back. But even then, what guarantee is there that the Hindu will stiffen his spine instead of crawling around on crutches of silence otherwise known as Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam, illustrated chillingly by the spectre of a hapless mother cradling the blasted brains of her son in her lap ?
Never take in Muslims . they are bound to be traitors . We should think of getting rid of the muslim population here . Take only Hindus and other non muslims . Even christians are a bane for us , Never allow muslims to step in .Istead think of getting rid of traitor s here.
We have a living example of Bangladesh for whom lives of our soldiers were given off , now a traitors country . In fact we should dissuade from entertaining muslims from inside our country , they should be better at a safe distance
Keeping in View our present problems and Limitations, of our resources, though , We have all sympathy for the Afghans, We can not/ should not provide them with Indian Citizenship. we are having sufficient /enough experience with the Refugees from the Bangladesh and we can not afford to have any more. This may lead to many more problems. It is understandable to accommodate the Peoples of Indian Origin, but the flood Gate for the refugees cannot be opened.
Afganistan refugees should NOT be granted Indian citizenship. They can be put up in relief camps if at all some of them are brought into India on humanitarian grounds and sent back to their mother land Afghanistan when things settle down there.
Agreed for two main reasons. One , in 2013 survey some 99 percent of Afghanistan Muslims supported the Sharia Laws should be the laws of the land. And two, we already know how the Muslims who decided to stay back in India after the partition were very polite and accommodating. Look now their children and grandchildren are demanding give us fifteen minutes without the police and we will show the Hindus what we are made up of. Who can give any guarantee how these Afghan refugees’ children and grandchildren will be like? We are witnessing in many European countries one time begging refugees from the Muslim countries are killing the Kaffirs.