The UN Security Council’s Taliban Sanctions Committee has approved an exemption to the travel ban on Afghanistan’s Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, paving the way for his visit to New Delhi next week.

The Committee, created under resolution 1988 (2011), announced on September 30, 2025, that it “approved an exemption to the travel ban for Amir Khan Muttaqi to visit New Delhi, India, from October 9 to 16, 2025.”

This development marks the first ministerial-level trip from Kabul to India since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in August 2021.

Muttaqi has been under UN sanctions since January 25, 2001, which placed him on the list subjecting him to a travel ban, an assets freeze, and an arms embargo.

India has repeatedly underlined that Afghan territory should not serve as

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