BUT team of Indian officials met incumbent talib foreign minister of Afghanistan on On Thursday, to discuss bilateral relations and humanitarian aid, the Taliban said, in what was first such a visit to Kabul after the chaotic US withdrawal last year.
poverty and hunger took off in Afghanistan since the Taliban took power after the United States pulled it out, India sent food grains and other aid.
Current Foreign Administration Taliban minister Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaki, met with a delegation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of India, led by senior official Jay P Singh.
“The meeting was dedicated on Diplomatic relations between India and Afghanistan, bilateral trade and humanitarian aid,” said Taliban foreign ministry spokesman Abdul Kahar Balkhi. on Twitter.
Balkhi said, minister called the visitgood Start in links between two countries”. Asked if New Delhi now officially recognizes the Taliban administration, Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman Arindam Bagchi told reporters that they “put too much on this visit.”
The ministry has previously stated in a statement that officials will oversee delivery of humanitarian aid and visit areas targeted by programs or projects supported by India.
India donated about 20,000 tons of wheat, 13 tons of drugs, 500,000 doses of Vaccine against Covid-19 and items of winter clothes, with more medicinal and food grains on in way- he said.
India recalls its officials out of Afghanistan last August and closed its embassy, although it seeks to maintain ties with country.
Bagchi declined say when the embassy can reopen, except that the local staff continued to function and ensure right maintenance and content of your room there.
