North India Statesman
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India on Thursday welcomed Afghanistan to dismiss the efforts to “create mistrust” between the two countries, while Foreign Minister S Jaishankar held a conversation with the Taliban acting Foreign Minister Aamir Khan Mottaki for the first time. Jaishankar also thanked Mottaki for condemning the Pahalgam terror attack.
In a telephone conversation on Thursday, Jaishankar also underlined India’s traditional friendship with the Afghan people and reiterated India’s continuous support for their development needs.
Jaishankar said, “Through false and baseless reports, I welcome to dismiss the recent efforts to create mistrust between India and Afghanistan.” He did not directly mention the report of a class of Pakistani media that claimed that India had “hired” to carry out “false flags” operations in Pahalgam.
The minister gave this phone to Muttki by the Taliban rule of Afghanistan Condemn the Pahalgam attack A few days later, New Delhi has not yet officially recognized, in which 26 people were killed by terrorists associated with Pakistan in Jammu and Kashmir.
Jaishankar also wrote on X, calling it “a good conversation” with the Taliban Minister, “I appreciate him deeply condemned the Pahalgam terror attack”.
He said that during the discussion, he underlined “India’s) traditional friendship and continuous support for their development needs. Discussed ways and means of advancing cooperation.”
This conversation between India and Pakistan in view of Operation Sindoor The military attacks took place a few days after the consent to stop. Operation Sindoor Pahalgam was launched after the terrorist attack. The incident was condemned by the Kabul regime.
After the Pahalgam attack, the Director General of Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan Division in the Ministry of External Affairs, Indian Special Envoy Anand Prakash Taliban’s Foreign Minister Aamir Khan went to Kabul to meet Mottaki. Their discussion focused on strengthening bilateral political relations, increasing trade and transit cooperation and exchange of views on recent regional developments.
Jaishankar’s conversation is the first political level contact between the two sides since the Taliban captured power in Kabul in August 2021. In January this year, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri met Mottaki in Dubai.
Earlier, the final political level contact was made in 1999-2000, when the then Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh, the Taliban Foreign Minister Advocate Ahmed Muttakil, after the kidnapping of Indian Airlines flight IC-814 in December 1999.
