India has upgraded its ‘technical mission’ in Kabul to full embassy status. External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar made the decision public on Friday in a meeting with Afghanistan’s Foreign Minister Maulvi Amir Khan Muttaqi in Delhi. On ‘The Gist’, speaks to StratNews Global ‘s and on the step-by-step pragmatic approach that New Delhi has been adopting. Muttaqi’s visit marks the first by a senior Taliban leader to India since they retook Afghanistan for the second time in August 2021.

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StratNews Global conducted a rare one-on-one interview with Minister Muttaqi in Kabul in August 2022 . Watch our other interviews on that trip, including one with Taliban Spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid, a woman journalist and the former Tolo TV head here.

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