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Published on: 11/01/2025 | 00:00:00
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India has been gradually upping relations with the Taliban over the past year. This latest meeting marked the first high-level engagement of its kind. India has invested more than $3bn in aid and reconstruction work in Afghanistan in the past 20 years. For one, the meeting comes just days after India condemned Pakistan’s air attacks on Afghanistan. India sent a small technical team to partially reopen its embassy in Kabul in 2022. Indian reluctance lingers One positive move which may come out of all this is the prospect of visas for Afghans. India may be close to restarting a tranche of visas for Afghans, he says. India was criticised for suspending Afghan visas in the aftermath of the Taliban takeover in 2021. It has issued very few visas to Afghans since then. India has long tried to market and position itself as the largest democracy in the world, but has failed to even condemn the banning of girls’ education in Afghanistan. India has maintained a strong presence in Afghanistan and was one of the first countries to send a diplomatic mission after the fall of the Taliban in 2001. But India has lacked a coherent policy on the country. India has failed to engage with diverse players in Afghanistan, isolating its interests in the long run. Taneja warns that Afghanistan’s political climate has always been very volatile.
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