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India to help Kabul set up police system

India would soon send a team of senior police officials to Kabul to help in setting up an efficient policing system there, Union Home Minister Lal Kishenchand Advani said in Karimnagar in Andhra Pradesh on Sunday.

"We are willing to help in all possible ways in the reconstruction of Afghanistan," Advani told newspersons after inaugurating a private medical institute.

Recalling his recent meeting with the Afghanistan's interior minister-designate, Younous Qanooni, in New Delhi, he said India had assured the visiting dignitary that all possible assistance would be given for the reconstruction of the war-ravaged country.

Stating that Qanooni had sought India's help in setting up an effective police organisation in his country, Advani said a team of senior police officials having wide experience in the field would be sent to Afghanistan for necessary co-ordination.

"The dislodging of the Taliban regime last week marked a major milestone in the history of Afghanistan. Taliban is not only a set of fanatic individuals but reflects an attitude and ideology that is perverse, obscurantist and fundamentalist," Advani said.

In the given circumstances, he said, the reconstruction of Afghanistan posed several difficulties but assured New Delhi's full support in the task.

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