Hekmat Khalil Karzai

The Hindu: Afghanistan on Thursday pressed for operationalising the four-year-old India-Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Pact (SPA), in which defence cooperation is a major component. Afghan Deputy Foreign Minister Hekamat Karzai said a meeting between the National Security Advisors of the two countries had discussed the ways to enhance defence cooperation, but refused to elaborate details of the deliberations. He said Afghanistan’s NSA has given its “wish list” to India. Click here to read more (external link).