Afghanistan's Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi will reportedly travel to India next week after the UN Security Council’s Taliban Sanctions Committee approved an exemption to the travel ban imposed on the Taliban leader.

It would be the first ministerial visit from Kabul to India after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021, news agency PTI reported.

A planned visit to India by Muttaqi last month was called off after he could not get a waiver for the trip.

Muttaqi, “considered to be a prominent member of the Taliban”, had also served as a Taliban representative in United Nations-led talks during the Taliban regime, the UN said.

The Committee comprises all 15 members of the UN Security Council and makes its decision by consensus. Also Read | Taliban re

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