The 6th Edition of the Indo-Kazakhstan joint training exercise “KAZIND-22” will be held in Umroi (Meghalaya) from 15 to 28 December as part of military diplomacy and to strengthen the growing strategic relationship with Kazakhstan.
The exercise is a joint training exercise between both armies that will strengthen India-Kazakhstan relations.
Exercise Prabal Dostyk, a joint annual training exercise with the Kazakhstan Army, was established in 2016 and was later upgraded to a company-level exercise and renamed Ex Kazind in 2018.
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Kazakhstan Army soldiers from the Regional Command and South and Indian Army soldiers from the 11 Gorkha Rifles will take part in the exercise.
According to the Ministry of Defence, the exercise’s goal is to foster positive military relations, learn from one another’s best practices, and promote the ability to work together while conducting counter-terrorism operations in a semi-urban and jungle setting under a UN peacekeeping mandate.
This joint exercise will allow the two armies to train, plan, and execute a series of combined tactical drills aimed at countering potential threats encountered in UN peacekeeping operations.
The scope of this exercise includes a Battalion-level Command Post Exercise (CPX) and a Company-level Field Training Exercise (FTX) on unconventional operations. According to the ministry, participants will participate in various missions during the exercise, including joint planning, joint tactical drills, basic special weapons skills, HADR and raiding a hostile target.
KAZIND exercise will increase the level of defence cooperation between the Indian Army and the Kazakhstan Army, thereby strengthening bilateral relations between the two countries.
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