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.

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).

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-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.

An improvement in New Delhi’s relationship with Kabul would put Islamabad under further pressure, potentially limiting its capacity to stir up mischief on the Indian border

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

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.

Is Pakistan on the verge of losing its erstwhile friend, the Afghan Taliban, to its arch-rival India? India’s Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri meets with Afghanistan’s acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi,

India has only sent officials at the joint secretary level to Kabul to engage with the former militant group which now holds power in Afghanistan

India's latest diplomatic outreach to Afghanistan's Taliban government signals a marked shift in how it sees the geopolitical reality in the region. This comes more than three years after India suffered a major strategic and diplomatic blow when Kabul fell to the Taliban.

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".