Taliban took over Kabil through an armed struggle in August 2021 and India is yet to recognise Taliban's rule in Afghanistan. Further, New Delhi remains concerned over the presence in Afghanistan of terror elements belonging to Pakistan-based terror groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM).

India and Afghanistan have taken a significant step in securing their first high-level bilateral engagement. No foreign government, including India, officially recognizes the Taliban regime.

The Taliban leadership has built confidence in New Delhi by not doing anything that goes against India’s security interests say analysts

India-Afghanistan-Taliban: In a surprise development Wednesday, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri met Afghanistan’s acting Foreign Minister Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi in Dubai and promised to cooperate with the interim Taliban government there in enhancing trade,

By re-entering the high-stakes game of Afghan diplomacy, India is seeking to protect its security and geopolitical interests Over three years after the Taliban assumed control of Afghanistan, forcing the then President Ashraf Ghani to flee the nation,

The meeting between foreign secretary Vikram Misri and the Taliban’s acting foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in Dubai was significant because it marked the highest level of engagement so far by the Indian side with the regime in Kabul since the group’s takeover of Afghanistan in 2021.

The Pakistan factor is at play and so is India’s need for Chabahar. The warming of ties between Kabul and New Delhi is not a sudden development but a result of quiet diplomacy since the Taliban came t

Great Games’ was used to describe the fierce fight by rival powers for spheres of influence in the unforgiving swathes of South-Central Asia (modern day Afghanistan), at the crossroads of civilisations.

India's engagement with the Taliban-led Afghan government is redefining South Asia's political landscape. A significant meeting between India and the

Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri has met Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, India’s highest-level contact yet with the regime since it came to power in 2021. The meeting was the culmination of the incremental progress of India’s policy of ‘cautious engagement’ with the Taliban – how has it negotiated the relationship over the last three and a half years?

The recent high-level engagement between the Indian government and the Taliban has shown the spotlight on a critical aspect of the bilateral relationship between India and Afghanistan — like the previous governments in Kabul,

Following the highest-level talks with Delhi since their takeover of Afghanistan in 2021, the Taliban's foreign office said they saw India as a "significant regional and economic partner".