The Pakistan factor is at play and so is India’s need for Chabahar. The warming of ties between Kabul and New Delhi is not a sudden development but a result of quiet diplomacy since the Taliban came t

India and Afghanistan have taken a significant step in securing their first high-level bilateral engagement. No foreign government, including India, officially recognizes the Taliban regime.

India-Afghanistan-Taliban: In a surprise development Wednesday, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri met Afghanistan’s acting Foreign Minister Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi in Dubai and promised to cooperate with the interim Taliban government there in enhancing trade,

The meeting between foreign secretary Vikram Misri and the Taliban’s acting foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in Dubai was significant because it marked the highest level of engagement so far by the Indian side with the regime in Kabul since the group’s takeover of Afghanistan in 2021.

Taliban took over Kabil through an armed struggle in August 2021 and India is yet to recognise Taliban's rule in Afghanistan. Further, New Delhi remains concerned over the presence in Afghanistan of terror elements belonging to Pakistan-based terror groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM).

which was seen as a huge diplomatic setback for India’s two-decade long efforts to build deeper ties with Kabul. “New Delhi’s approach is a pragmatic one, grounded in the view that isolating ...

Afghanistan has reached out to India to enhance diplomatic and economic relations amidst regional security concerns. This comes after the first engagement between Kabul and New Delhi since the Taliban took control.

In recent months, people-to-people relations and trade & transit between Pakistan and Afghanistan have been squeezed. This has

Following the highest-level talks with Delhi since their takeover of Afghanistan in 2021, the Taliban's foreign office said they saw India as a "significant regional and economic partner".

While assuring New Delhi that Afghanistan does not pose a threat to any nation, Taliban has urged India to grant visa to Afghan businessmen, students, patients.

While there is no move yet to grant official recognition to the Taliban government, this is an effort by India to secure its own national and security interests with many moving parts in play.

very few pundits would’ve wagered that ties between the two nations could ever be re-established as long as the Taliban held sway in Kabul. New Delhi’s relations with the Afghan Taliban have ...