New Delhi: In the first political contact between India and the Taliban, Im S Jaishankar Acting Afghan Foreign Minister, Amir Khan spoke to Mottaki, on 22 April, on 22 April, he appreciated the strong condemnation of the Pahgam terror attack.In the last few years, India’s relations with the Taliban were on a complete performance during the events after the dramatic reform attack, including India’s ‘Operation Sindoor’ against Pakistani terrorist camps, as Kabul strongly denied Pakistani claims that Indian authorities had fired missiles in a meeting on 28 April.Jaishankar said in a post on X that he welcomed the rejection of Mutak of recent efforts to create mistrust between India and Afghanistan through false and baseless reports. The minister said, “The Afghan underlined our traditional friendship with the people and continued support for their development needs. Discussed methods and means of advancing methods and means of cooperation,” the minister said.In another attempt to sow discord between India and Taliban, a whisper campaign was also launched to connect the Taliban to the Pahalgam attack. Countless relations with Afghanistan are also important for India to deny the so -called strategic depth to Pakistan, which has always been sought from the country in a state of military conflict with India. India does not formally recognize the Taliban rule in Kabul, but senior officials of the Ministry of External Affairs are regularly visiting the country as India re -opened their embassy and deployed a technical team to oversee India’s assistance in Afghanistan. The embassy was closed after the Taliban’s return of Kabul in August 2021. In January this year, there was a dramatic upgradation even without formal recognition, as Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri visited Doha for a meeting with Mutak.Mutki reiterated a demand in a conversation with Afghan in India and reiterated a demand in a conversation with Jaishankar with the return of Afghan prisoners in India. Jaishankar said that the issue of Afghan prisoners was given quick attention and promised to streamline the visa process.India had said that recently it has been considering resumption of work on Indian projects in Afghanistan and is also looking at the new infrastructure projects. According to an Afghan readout, Mutaki focused on increasing trade and diplomatic relations with India and emphasized the development of strategic pieces in Iran.
