The Taliban’s foreign office said they saw India as a “significant regional and economic partner” after meeting with its most senior foreign ministry official, the highest level talks with New Delhi since their takeover of Afghanistan in 2021, Reuters reported. India’s Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri met the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan’s interim government Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi in Dubai on Wednesday. The meeting came days after India’s foreign ministry earlier this week condemned airstrikes carried out by Pakistan on Afghan soil late last year.
