Foreign secretary meets Taliban

The Afghan Taliban conveyed it's "sensitivities to India's security concerns" as foreign secretary Vikram Misri met the Taliban's acting foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi for the first time in Dubai on Wednesday.

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The Indian side pledged to provide support to Afghanistan for the health sector and for rehabilitating refugees during the meeting, which was part of the Indian side's continuing outreach to the Taliban regime in Kabul, which isn't formally recognised by New Delhi.

India's engagement with the Taliban leadership has largely been handled by the foreign ministry's point person for Afghanistan, JP Singh, and this was the first officially acknowledged meeting between the foreign secretary and a senior Taliban leader.