New Delhi: India will restore the status of its mission in the capital of Afghanistan to that of an embassy and restart supporting development projects in the conflict-ravaged country, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said as he hosted the foreign minister of the Taliban regime in Kabul, Amir Khan Muttaqi, in New Delhi on Friday.

Muttaqi sent a stern warning to Islamabad from New Delhi and promised that no group or individual would be allowed to use the territory of Afghanistan against India. “We appreciate your sensitivity towards the security concerns of India,” Jaishankar told his counterpart, who landed in New Delhi on Thursday, after the United Nations Security Council granted him a limited-period exemption from the travel ban that was imposed, along with asset freeze and arms

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