New Delhi does not recognize Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers, who took power in 2021. The announcement comes amid reports the ambassador and other senior diplomats left India in recent months and sought asylum elsewhere.
New Delhi does not recognize Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers, who took power in 2021. The announcement comes amid reports the ambassador and other senior diplomats left India in recent months and sought asylum elsewhere.
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India had allowed the Afghan Embassy to continue operating under the ambassador and mission staff appointed by ousted President Ashraf Ghani.
Last month, China became the first country to formally name a new ambassador to Afghanistan, with other states still maintaining envoys from before the Taliban takeover.
The statement said that it had become “increasingly challenging” to continue operations due to cuts in staff and resources.
It said that a failure to meet expectations in serving Afghanistan’s interests given the “lack of a legitimate functioning government in Kabul” was another factor in the closure.
The embassy said that it “categorically refutes any baseless claims regarding internal strife” among its staff, adding that it denied any diplomats were “using the crisis to seek asylum in a country.”
The Reuters news agency reported the ambassador and other senior diplomats left India in recent months and had gained asylum in Europe and the United States, citing three embassy officials.
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