Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi is set to meet with his Indian counterpart, S Jaishankar, today. The meeting will be the first high-level diplomatic engagement between the Afghan Taliban and New Delhi since the group seized power in 2021 after two decades of US military presence.

Muttaqi landed in New Delhi on Thursday, in the first high-level trip from Kabul, days after the UN Security Council’s Taliban Sanctions Committee approved an exemption to the travel ban imposed on him.

"Warm welcome to Afghan Foreign Minister, Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi on his arrival in New Delhi," External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said on social media soon after the Taliban leader landed in India.

"We look forward to engaging discussions with him on bilateral relations and r

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