India Seeks Taliban Cooperation In Enhancing Trade Via Iran’s Chabahar Port

India has urged the Taliban to expand political and economic cooperation between New Delhi and Kabul even as it plans to kick-start two-way trade.

Indian delegation led by JP Singh, Joint Secretary (Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran Division), MEA, met Taliban government officials in Kabul. ( Image Source :Afghanistan Foreign Ministry )

New Delhi: India has reached out to the Taliban government in Kabul seeking its cooperation in expanding political and economic ties, thereby kick-starting bilateral trade and transit between both countries using the Chabahar Port in Iran. In a series of meetings with the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), an Indian delegation led by JP Singh, Joint Secretary (Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran Division), Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), met Taliban government officials in Kabul as well as