8 December 2001:
"..The Indian government has agreed to give intelligence training to Afghanistan’s covert forces, top officials said.

Visiting Afghan interior minister Yunus Qanooni asked for such assistance in his meeting with Union home minister L.K.Advani yesterday.

Advani disclosed to the media that Qanooni had sought assistance to raise an Afghan police force but did not reveal the agreement on intelligence training.

Qanooni is in Delhi to fly back his parents and his brother’s family to Afghanistan.

India had an informal intelligence-sharing agreement with the Northern Alliance that has obtained 17 of the 23 ministerial posts in the six-month interim government negotiated at the Afghan roundtable in Koenigswinter, Germany.

The Northern Alliance was one major source for Indian intelligence on the Taliban and Al-Qaeda that was conveyed selectively to the US during its Afghan campaign.

The assassinated Northern Alliance commander, Ahmed Shah Masood, was close to the Indian covert services and visited India on their invitation.

Analysts say that intelligence training to Afghan covert services could focus less on human intelligence than on electronic intelligence.

India has vastly developed interception and deciphering facilities and the Afghans could be helped on this.

Indian spy satellites have also been covering Afghanistan but analysts say it would be premature to share satellite intelligence with the Afghans.

But any intelligence training and intelligence-sharing would be limited by the fact that Qanooni represents an interim government.

“Only when some sort of political stability is reached in Afghanistan could we consider intelligence-sharing on a strategic level,” an official said..."