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JP Singh is also Joint Secretary in the Office of the External Affairs Minister. He held separate meetings with Taliban’s acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaki and former President Hamid Karzai. There was no official statement from the Indian side on the meetings. Singh, who has largely led the Indian side’s engagement with the Taliban.
Indian External Affairs Ministry spokesperson for Afghanistan met Taliban’s acting Defense Minister Mullah Mohammad Yacob for the first time and discussed ways to expand relations between the two sides. People familiar with the matter described the meeting in Kabul between Yaqoob and JP Singh, joint secretary of the Pakistan-Afghanistan-Iran division of the Ministry of External Affairs, as a significant development. Yaqoob, son of Taliban founder and late supreme leader Mullah Omar, has not held public talks with Indian negotiators in the past, he said on condition of anonymity.
JP Singh is also Joint Secretary in the Office of the External Affairs Minister. He held separate meetings with Taliban’s acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaki and former President Hamid Karzai. There was no official statement from the Indian side on the meetings. Singh, who has largely led the Indian side’s engagement with the Taliban, was on an unannounced visit to the Afghan capital. The Taliban’s defense ministry said in a post on Twitter that Yacob met an Indian delegation led by Singh and discussed ways to expand ties.
The Defense Ministry said in its post that in this meeting both sides stressed their common desire to expand bilateral relations, especially in the field of humanitarian cooperation and other issues, and to strengthen further dialogue between Afghanistan and India. Expressed his interest in. Karzai said in a post on X that he and Singh discussed the long-standing and historic relations between the two countries and stressed the need to strengthen bilateral ties as much as possible.
