New Delhi: Alhaj Nooruddin Azizi, the Taliban’s Minister of Industry and Commerce, arrived in India Wednesday for a five-day visit, with a business delegation, against the backdrop of escalating tensions between the regime in Kabul and Pakistan that has disrupted Afghanistan’s exports.

Azizi is expected to meet External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar. He is the second senior Taliban official to visit India in a little over a month, after Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi, the Taliban’s foreign minister, travelled to India for a five-day trip and interacted with several Indian officials, including Jaishankar, in October.

The Taliban’s Minister of Industry and Commerce led a high-level delegation to the India International Trade Fair (IITF) Wednesday. Azizi was received by Neeraj Kharwal, Managin

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