Afghanistan Live updates, Kabul Live News: India makes its first official contact with the Taliban when its ambassador to Qatar met the head of the Taliban political office in Doha on Tuesday.
Afghanistan LIVE updates: Facing sharp criticism over the tumultuous US withdrawal from Afghanistan, US President Joe Biden said on Tuesday it was the best available option to end both the United States’ longest war and decades of fruitless efforts to remake other countries through military force.
Hours after the last US military aircraft flew out of Kabul, India made its first official contact with the Taliban when its ambassador to Qatar met the head of the Taliban political office in Doha Tuesday.
This comes after the UN Security Council, with India as its president for the month of August, dropped a reference to the Taliban from a paragraph in its statement asking Afghan groups not to support terrorists “operating on the territory of any other country”.