Four years after the Taliban took charge of Afghanistan in a violent movement, Amir Khan Muttaqi, the ‘Foreign Minister’ of the Taliban administration, will travel to India next week, officials of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Thursday (October 2, 2025). The visit is expected to be focused on developmental assistance to Afghanistan, which has been struggling with scarcity of essential medicines and agricultural products ever since the Taliban took over Kabul on August 15, 2021, the officials further said.

The visit has been under consideration for some time, and Mr. Muttaqi could not travel earlier as India has been sensitive to the fact that he, like several other Taliban leaders, continues to be placed under international sanctions because of the violent struggle that

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