New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Friday that India has upgraded its technical mission in Afghanistan to an embassy and New Delhi is looking at how to strengthen its functionality, responsibilities and increasing strength.

While addressing a weekly media briefing in New Delhi on Friday, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal recalled the visit of Afghanistan’s Foreign Minister Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi to India in October and the telephonic conversations between External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his Afghan counterpart.

Asked about reports claiming that the Taliban is going to send a diplomat to India, Jaiswal responded, “We had the visit of the Foreign Minister of Afghanistan to India recently. Since then, we’ve also had several exchanges in terms of developme

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