New Delhi:
In a major transfer, an Indian delegation met Afghanistan’s performing Defence Minister Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob and supplied the usage of Chabahar Port in Iran to companies in his nation, and in addition mentioned extending humanitarian help to Kabul.
The delegation was led by J P Singh, the Joint Secretary of the Pakistan-Afghanistan-Iran division within the Exterior Affairs Ministry.
Throughout a weekly media briefing right here, Exterior Affairs Ministry spokesman Randhir Jaiswal stated that aside from Mohammad Yaqoob, the delegation additionally met with former President Hamid Karzai and different senior ministers, together with the heads of UN companies.
“That they had discussions on India’s humanitarian help, additionally how the Chabahar Port may be utilised by the enterprise neighborhood in Afghanistan for transactions and for export and import and every other factor that they want to do,” Jaiswal stated in response to a query.
India doesn’t recognise the Taliban regime that has been ruling Afghanistan since 2021.
India has been offering humanitarian help, together with wheat, medicines and medical provides, to the Afghan folks infrequently.
“I additionally wish to recall right here that offering humanitarian help to Afghanistan is a crucial a part of our help programme and up to now in the previous couple of months, and some years, now we have dispatched a number of shipments of humanitarian help. We now have longstanding ties with the folks of Afghanistan, and these ties will proceed to information our strategy in the direction of the nation,” Jaiswal stated.
Earlier this yr, India signed a 10-year contract with Iran to develop and function the Chabahar Port which was constructed with its help.
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