Afghanistan’s Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi is expected to visit India on October 10, after the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) approved a waiver to allow him to travel despite international restrictions. Before arriving in New Delhi, he is scheduled to travel to Moscow on October 6.

The visit, if confirmed, would mark the first high-level trip by a Taliban official to India since the group seized control of Afghanistan in August 2021. The last Afghan leader to travel to New Delhi was then-President Ashraf Ghani, shortly before his government collapsed.

Meanwhile, reports in Hasht-e Subh Daily , an independent Afghan newspaper, have suggested that changes are imminent within the Taliban’s leadership, particularly in the security sector. Rumours point to the possible removal

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