India disclosed having its first formal meeting with the Taliban leader which has taken control of Afghanistan in the past few days following the withdrawal of United States forces from the State. The consultation took place succeeding an application by the new head of state of the strife-hit country.
India is in a practical inevitability of engaging with the Taliban and it would be one of the best and imperative political stakeholders in Afghanistan.
The Taliban’s return to supremacy would probably impression Afghanistan’s neighbors while intensifying apprehensions of regional unpredictability, refugee introductions, and the viewpoint of Afghanistan. India’s ambassador to Qatar apprehended consultations with a top Taliban leader.
The Indian foreign ministry said about the first formal meeting with the Taliban leader,
“The first formal diplomatic engagement since the Islamist group took over Afghanistan. India’s ambassador to Qatar, Deepak Mittal, met with the head of the Taliban’s political office, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, in Doha. Ambassador Mittal raised India’s concern that Afghanistan’s soil should not be used for anti-Indian activities and terrorism in any manner. The Taliban representative assured the ambassador that these issues would be positively addressed. The envoy, Deepak Mittal, met Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai, the head of the Taliban’s Political Office in Doha, at the request of the Taliban. The two sides discussed the safety of Indians left behind in Afghanistan. Mittal also conveyed India’s fears that anti-India militants could use Afghanistan’s soil to mount attacks.”
An Indian diplomat’s first formal meeting is properly gathering for the first time to the group and manifesting a considerably dissimilar line of attack from New Delhi paralleled to the time when the Taliban were previously in power in the 1990s.
Mittal and Stanikzai deliberated the well-being, sanctuary, and primary reoccurrence of Indian nationals who are deserted in Afghanistan besides New Delhi’s apprehensions about Afghanistan being used as a base for terrorism.
India’s assurances and the contemporary modification in influence have left New Delhi in a threatening premeditated state. India is in deliberations with the stakeholders in Afghanistan.
Ambassador Deepak Mittal, India’s envoy to Qatar, met Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai, Head of Taliban’s Political Office in that country, according to a press release from the Ministry of External Affairs. They met at the Indian Embassy in Doha, the statement said.
There was no instantaneous mention from the Taliban of the consultations with the Indians.
India has financed over and above $3 billion in enlargement efforts and constructive determinations in Afghanistan and had assembled adjacent relations with the United States-backed Kabul government. Nevertheless, with the prompt progress of the Taliban, the Indian government was incrustation disparagement and accustomed to not primary a channel of communication with them.
In June, unceremonious acquaintances were recognized with Taliban political leaders in Doha. The gigantic alarm is that assemblages struggling with Indian rule in occupied Kashmir will turn out to be vitalized with the triumph of the Taliban over foreign forces.
When the Taliban were last in supremacy from 1996-2001, India in conjunction with Russia and Iran reinforced the Northern Alliance that pursued armed resistance against them. This first formal meeting is after the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan.
