India on Tuesday (October 21, 2025) has announced a major change in its embassy located in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. The Ministry of External Affairs has announced that India will upgrade its political presence in Afghanistan from a technical mission to the level of a full embassy. This step is part of India’s growing engagement with the Taliban government. However, India has not yet given formal recognition to the Taliban regime which returned to power in August 2021.

This announcement has been made by the Indian Foreign Ministry at a time when Taliban Foreign Minister Aamir Khan Muttaki had recently completed his tour of India. Muttaki’s visit was the first time for any senior Taliban leader to visit India. External Affairs Minister S. after talks with Aamir Khan Muttaki in Delhi on October 10, 2025. Jaishankar had said that India will upgrade its diplomatic role in Kabul.

India had called back its officials after the return of Taliban.

It is noteworthy that after the return of Taliban to power in the year 2021, India had withdrawn all its officers from Afghanistan and also closed all its missions. But, in June 2022, India sent a technical team led by a middle-level diplomat to Afghanistan and re-established a limited diplomatic presence in Kabul.

What did the Foreign Ministry say in the statement,

An MEA press release reads, “In keeping with the decision announced during the recent visit of the Afghan Foreign Minister to India, the Government is restoring the status of the Technical Mission of India in Kabul to that of Embassy of India. in Afghanistan with immediate effect.… pic.twitter.com/NUSCQRRXM2

— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) October 21, 2025

India’s Ministry of External Affairs issued a statement saying, ‘In accordance with the decision announced during the recent visit of the Foreign Minister of Afghanistan to India, the Government of India is, with immediate effect, restoring the status of India’s Technical Mission in Kabul and establishing it as the Embassy of India in Afghanistan.’ The ministry said, ‘This decision underlines that India is committed to further deepening its bilateral relations with the Afghan side in all areas of mutual interest.’

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Pakistan Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has given an absurd and fabricated statement against India regarding the recent bloody conflict with Afghanistan. Pakistani PM Shahbaz Sharif said that Afghanistan had attacked Pakistan at the instigation of India.

Sharif said, ‘At the time when Afghanistan attacked Pakistan, Afghanistan’s Foreign Minister Aamir Khan Muttaki was on a visit to New Delhi and his pictures were also revealed. For this reason Pakistan had to take retaliatory action.

Afghanistan attacked to avenge the Kabul strike

The Afghan army had launched a massive attack on 7 borders of Pakistan on Saturday (October 11, 2025) at 7:23 pm. Afghanistan took this action in response to the attack on Kabul and Paktika by the Pakistani Army on Thursday last week (October 9, 2025).

At the same time, Afghanistan’s Defense Minister Mullah Yaqoob also clearly said, ‘The attack was done to avenge the attack on our capital Kabul, but Pakistan, which held India responsible for its problems, has now called the attack on Afghanistan also an attack done at the instigation of India.’

Dozens of innocent people and soldiers lost their lives, hundreds injured

Pakistan Army has recently targeted many cities and residential areas of Afghanistan. Pakistani army conducted air strikes in residential areas in Kandahar and Khost city. Apart from this, Pakistan also claimed to conduct airstrike in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. Dozens of innocent Afghan civilians have lost their lives in the attacks carried out by Pakistan so far. Along with this, Afghan army soldiers have died. At the same time, more than 400 Afghan civilians have been seriously injured due to the attack by Pakistani Army.

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