Indian embassy in Kabul will assist regional peace: Taliban spokesperson Suhail Shaheen

The Taliban administration in Afghanistan has welcomed India’s choice to improve the Indian Technical Mission in Kabul into an embassy. In an announcement to The Hindu, Kabul’s Ambassador to Qatar, Suhail Shaheen mentioned the Indian transfer will assist in constructing “regional peace”.

“It is a rightful step to place bilateral relations on regular monitor, construct belief, promote commerce and cooperation and play a constructive function in regional peace. I welcome this choice and searching ahead to seeing good bilateral relations between Afghanistan and India,” mentioned Mr. Shaheen who’s the Spokesman for worldwide media for the Taliban administration. Mr. Shaheen can also be serving as Kabul’s Ambassador to Qatar.

“It is a crucial and wanted choice for relations between the 2 nations in varied areas,” mentioned Mr. Shaheen.

As determined through the latest go to of Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, India restored formal diplomatic hyperlinks with Kabul on Tuesday (October 21, 2025) by upgrading the Technical Mission into an embassy with “rapid impact”. Official sources mentioned it will lead to India appointing a CDA (chargé d’affaires) within the Indian embassy in Kabul.

“The Embassy of India in Kabul will additional increase India’s contribution to Afghanistan’s complete improvement, humanitarian help, and capability constructing initiatives, in line with the priorities and aspirations of Afghan society,” mentioned the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) within the assertion asserting the restoration of formal diplomatic contact with Taliban-administered Afghanistan.

India had shut its embassy in Kabul and withdrew current employees in August 2021 when regulation and order scenario had damaged down as Taliban overthrew the federal government of President Ashraf Ghani. The Indian consulates in Mazar-i-Sharif, Jalalabad, Kandahar and Herat had additionally been closed because the battle intensified in early 2021. India had despatched a technical crew to Kabul to run the mission on June 23, 2022 which was meant to facilitate humanitarian help and supply consular assist.