Afghanistan's new President Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai.NEW DELHI: India will stand with Afghanistan "at every step" as a friend and partner, PM Narendra Modi told new Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Wednesday. Modi called Ghani to congratulate him on his election as president."Prime Minister Modi conveyed that India will stand with him, as a friend and a partner, at every step on the way, as his government moves forward in its efforts to build a strong, stable, peaceful, democratic, inclusive and prosperous nation," said the government in a release.
Modi also, said the government, lauded President Ghani's wisdom and statesmanship, and his commitment to unity, peace and progress in Afghanistan, which had enabled the formation of a broad-based inclusive government through a peaceful political transition.
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