India’s ambassador to Qatar held talks with a top Taliban leader on August 31, the Indian Foreign Ministry said, the first formal diplomatic engagement since the hardline Islamist group took over Afghanistan.
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Reuters: India announces first formal meeting with Taliban
Taliban fighters ride a motorbike along the street in Kabul on Aug. 16, 2021, after a stunningly swift end to Afghanistan's 20-year war, as thousands of people mobbed the city's airport trying to flee the group's feared hardline brand of Islamist rule.
