Police examine the wreckage of a vehicle used in Thursday’s attack on India’s embassy

In May, India gave the Afghan government a rather unusual gift – a newly built power transmission line to bring 24-hour electricity to Kabul, the capital. The inauguration of the Indian-built Phul-e-khumri power line came just five months after completion of a 218km Indian-built highway linking the Afghan heartland to the Iranian border, essentially giving landlocked Afghanistan access to Iran’s sea ports.