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The Taliban medication successful Afghanistan has welcomed India’s determination to upgrade the Indian Technical Mission successful Kabul into an embassy. In a connection to The Hindu, Kabul’s Ambassador to Qatar, Suhail Shaheen said the Indian determination volition assistance successful gathering “regional peace”.
“It is simply a rightful measurement to enactment bilateral relations connected mean track, physique trust, beforehand commercialized and practice and play a constructive relation in regional peace. I invited this determination and looking guardant to seeing bully bilateral relations betwixt Afghanistan and India,” said Mr. Shaheen who is the Spokesman for planetary media for the Taliban administration. Mr. Shaheen is besides serving arsenic Kabul’s Ambassador to Qatar.
“It is an important and needed determination for relations betwixt the 2 countries successful assorted areas,” said Mr. Shaheen.
As decided during the caller sojourn of Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, India restored ceremonial diplomatic links with Kabul connected Tuesday (October 21, 2025) by upgrading the Technical Mission into an embassy with “immediate effect”. Official sources said this volition lead to India appointing a CDA (chargé d’affaires) successful the Indian embassy successful Kabul.
“The Embassy of India successful Kabul volition further augment India’s publication to Afghanistan’s broad development, humanitarian assistance, and capableness gathering initiatives, successful keeping with the priorities and aspirations of Afghan society,” said the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) successful the connection announcing the restoration of ceremonial diplomatic interaction with Taliban-administered Afghanistan.
India had unopen its embassy successful Kabul and withdrew existing unit successful August 2021 erstwhile instrumentality and bid concern had breached down arsenic Taliban overthrew the authorities of President Ashraf Ghani. The Indian consulates successful Mazar-i-Sharif, Jalalabad, Kandahar and Herat had besides been closed arsenic the struggle intensified successful aboriginal 2021. India had sent a method squad to Kabul to tally the ngo connected June 23, 2022 which was meant to facilitate humanitarian assistance and supply consular support.
