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India connected Thursday (November 20, 2025) reiterated enactment for the Afghan people and promised enhanced connectivity and commercialized betwixt the 2 sides.
The Indian connection was conveyed by External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar successful a gathering with visiting Afghan Minister of Industry and Commerce Alhaj Nooruddin Azizi, who became the 2nd Taliban Minister to beryllium hosted astatine Hyderabad House successful small implicit a month.
“Discussed ways to fortify our trade, connectivity and radical to radical ties. Reiterated India’s enactment for the improvement and payment of the radical of Afghanistan,” Mr. Jaishankar said aft gathering Mr. Azizi, who arrived present connected Wednesday for a five-day visit. Mr. Azizi besides met Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Jitin Prasada, who said the “discussions reflected a shared committedness to strengthening bilateral commercialized and economical cooperation”.
Mr. Azizi’s sojourn is being keenly watched arsenic it commenced days aft the Taliban medication successful Kabul urged Afghan traders to debar commercialized with Pakistan and to halt utilizing the Karachi larboard for commercialized reasons. Mr. Azizi is starring a ample Afghan commercialized delegation. He had his archetypal meetings successful the Indian Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO).
Afghan Ministers utilized to sojourn the ITPO during the erstwhile authorities of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan that was led by President Hamid Karzai and subsequently by President Ashraf Ghani. Mr. Azizi became the archetypal Afghan Minister to sojourn the ITPO since 2021, erstwhile the Taliban took complaint of Kabul pursuing the autumn of the authorities of President Ghani.
Sources present said that the Afghanistan-India aerial freight corridor that was expanded during the sojourn of Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi successful October volition beryllium operationalised by Afghan civilian aviation companies. However, determination are lingering doubts astir the disruptive relation that Pakistan tin play successful preventing creaseless functioning of the aerial freight corridors that purpose to link Amritsar, Delhi, and Mumbai with Kandahar and Kabul.
