ternal Affairs Minister S Jaishankar announced during his meeting with Taliban-ruled Afghanistan’s Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in New Delhi. This marked the highest level of bilateral contact between India and the Taliban since 2021.

New Delhi had closed its embassy in Kabul after the insurgent group retook power in Afghanistan in August 2021. However, in June 2022, a technical team was deployed at the diplomatic mission to oversee humanitarian assistance programmes.

Despite not formally recognising the Taliban regime, India had permitted a Taliban consul general to be appointed in Mumbai.

The Israeli Defense Forces confirmed it had repositioned troops along “updated deployment lines” adding that it would continue to counter “any immediate threat”.

Earlier in the day, Israel’s C

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