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India connected Tuesday (October 21, 2025) announced upgrading its method ngo successful Kabul to the presumption of an Embassy arsenic portion of broader efforts to deepen its bilateral engagement with Kabul.
The announcement came implicit a week-and-a-half aft External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said during his meeting with Afghan counterpart Amir Khan Muttaqi that India volition upgrade its diplomatic beingness successful Kabul.
India had withdrawn its officials from its Embassy successful Kabul aft the Taliban seized powerfulness successful August 2021. In June 2022, India re-established its diplomatic beingness successful the Afghan superior by deploying a "technical team".
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said the Indian Embassy successful Kabul volition further augment India's publication to Afghanistan's broad development, humanitarian assistance, and capacity-building initiatives.
An MEA property merchandise reads, "In keeping with the determination announced during the caller sojourn of the Afghan Foreign Minister to India, the Government is restoring the presumption of the Technical Mission of India successful Kabul to that of Embassy of India successful Afghanistan with contiguous effect.… pic.twitter.com/NUSCQRRXM2
— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) October 21, 2025"In keeping with the determination announced during the caller sojourn of the Afghan Foreign Minister to India, the authorities is restoring the presumption of the method ngo of India successful Kabul to that of the Embassy of India successful Afghanistan with contiguous effect," it said.
The MEA said the determination underscores India's resoluteness to deepen its bilateral engagement with the Afghan broadside successful "all spheres of communal interest".
"The Embassy of India successful Kabul volition further augment India's publication to Afghanistan's broad development, humanitarian assistance, and capacity-building initiatives, successful keeping with the priorities and aspirations of Afghan society," it said successful a statement.
The ngo volition beryllium headed by a diplomat successful the fertile of Charge d'affaires, it is learnt.
Mr. Muttaqi was successful India this period for six days that signalled a caller attack successful New Delhi's ties with Kabul though it has not yet recognised the Taliban acceptable up.
The Foreign Minister of the Taliban set-up had said Afghanistan volition not let immoderate elements to usage its territory against New Delhi's interests.
Mr. Muttaqi told a prime radical of journalists that Kabul volition besides nonstop diplomats to India arsenic portion of step-by-step efforts to amended the bilateral ties.
"We volition not let immoderate (element) to endanger anyone other oregon usage the territory of Afghanistan against others. Daesh is simply a situation for the portion and Afghanistan is astatine the frontlines of this struggle," helium had said.
