India offers Afghan businesses Chabahar Port for trade, discusses humanitarian aid

“During the visit, helium (Singh) had respective meetings with Afghan ministers, including the acting Defence minister. He besides called connected erstwhile Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai and the caput of UN agencies there,” MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said successful effect to a question during the play media briefing successful New Delhi connected Thursday.

“They had discussions connected India’s humanitarian assistance, and however Chabahar Port tin beryllium utilised by the concern assemblage successful Afghanistan for transactions and for export and import and immoderate different happening that they would similar to do,” helium said.

“Providing humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan is an important portion of our assistance programme and truthful acold successful the past fewer months, and fewer years, we person dispatched respective shipments of humanitarian assistance. We person longstanding ties with the radical of Afghanistan, and these ties volition proceed to usher our attack towards the country,” Jaiswal said.

India does not recognise the Taliban authorities that has been ruling Afghanistan since 2021, but has been providing humanitarian aid, including wheat, medicines and aesculapian supplies, to the Afghan radical from clip to time.

This was Singh’s archetypal gathering with the Taliban’s acting defence curate Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob, the MEA said. Yaqoob is the lad of Taliban laminitis Mullah Omar.

The Taliban’s defence ministry posted a representation of the gathering connected November 6.

Karzai said successful a station connected X connected Wednesday that helium and Singh had discussed the long-standing and historical ties betwixt the 2 countries and emphasised connected the request to fortify bilateral relations “as overmuch arsenic possible”.

While appreciating India’s practice with the radical of Afghanistan, Karzai said much attraction should beryllium paid to the acquisition and grooming of the Afghan youth, processing trade, and easing question betwixt the 2 sides.