India’s constituent idiosyncratic for engaging with the Taliban since they captured powerfulness successful Afghanistan successful August 2021, Jitender Pal Singh has been appointed arsenic India’s adjacent ambassador to Israel. His assignment comes astatine a clip erstwhile efforts are underway to resoluteness the situation successful the Middle East with the hostages and ceasefire woody betwixt Israel and Hamas.
A 2002-batch IFS officer, Singh is presently serving arsenic Joint Secretary, successful complaint of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran. He is besides associated caput successful External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s office.
In the past 4 years, helium has been engaging with the Taliban and has travelled to Afghanistan astatine slightest 4 times, including gathering Foreign curate Amir Khan Muttaqi and Defence curate Mullah Yaqoob among others. He besides met erstwhile Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai. His continuous engagement did the groundwork for caller gathering betwixt Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri and the Taliban Foreign curate Muttaqi successful Dubai.
He has served successful Afghanistan aft the panic onslaught connected Indian embassy successful Kabul that claimed the beingness of an Indian diplomat and an Army serviceman successful 2008, and has been Deputy High Commissioner successful Islamabad. Before coming to Delhi to presume the presumption of associated secretary, helium was Consul General successful Istanbul, Turkey.