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Watch: Afghanistan abandoned: How should India engage Taliban?
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Watch: Afghanistan abandoned: How should India engage Taliban?

As India essays closer ties with the Taliban, and with the US freezing funds, have Afghanistan’s exiles and women just been abandoned?

This week, we look at the situation in Afghanistan, where it would seem the Taliban regime has consolidated its position since it took over Kabul in 2021.

As a result, India is looking for whether it should draw the Taliban closer in a number of ways, a series of measures that have followed after a meeting between Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri and Taliban’s acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in Dubai in January 2025. That meeting marked the highest level at which India has engaged the Taliban since 2021.

Recently, a conference called the Herat Security Dialogue was held in Madrid, for Afghan exiles- who fled the Taliban regime.

Since the Taliban took control of the country in 2021, we look at the situation in terms of the security situation, political infighting, economy, refugees and the treatment of women.

We also spoke to Ashraf Haidari, a former diplomat and the founder of NGO Displaced International, and asked what India’s role can be.


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