NEW DELHI:
The Afghan embassy in India has suspended all operations after the ambassador and different senior diplomats left the nation for Europe and america the place they gained asylum, three embassy officers stated on Friday.
India doesn’t recognise the Taliban authorities, and closed its personal embassy in Kabul after the Taliban took management in 2021, however New Delhi had allowed the ambassador and mission workers appointed by the Western-backed authorities of ousted Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to situation visas and deal with commerce issues.
No less than 5 Afghan diplomats have left India, the embassy officers stated. The Indian authorities will now take over the diplomatic compound in a caretaker capability, one of many Afghan officers stated.
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Requested in regards to the matter, an Indian international ministry official in New Delhi stated they had been trying into the developments, with out giving any particulars.
Taliban officers in Kabul weren’t instantly out there for remark.
India is one in all a dozen international locations with a small mission in Kabul to facilitate commerce, humanitarian help and medical help. Bilateral commerce in 2019-2020 reached $1.5 billion, however fell drastically after the Taliban authorities took workplace.
Earlier this month a whole bunch of Afghan school college students dwelling in India regardless of the expiry of their scholar visas staged an illustration in New Delhi to induce the Indian authorities to increase their keep.