The Afghan Embassy in New Delhi will be closed. ARUN SANKAR / AFP
The Afghan Embassy in New Delhi announced that it will end its activities in India in a press release this 1st Weekuh October, more than two years after the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan. India does not recognize the Taliban government that returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021.
However, he has authorized the Afghan embassy to continue its activities under the supervision of the ambassador and a team appointed by former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, who left the country when American troops withdrew.
Internal feud?
According to an embassy press release, it became “increasingly difficult» to operate particularly due to reductions in personnel and resources, including “lack of adequate and timely support for diplomat visa renewals“.
The closure announcement came after reports that ambassadors and other senior diplomats had left India in recent months amid conflict between those still living in New Delhi.
Still in its press release, the Indonesian Embassy “categorically refutes baseless claims regarding internal strife“. He also denied that diplomats were using the crisis to “seek asylum in a third country“. India will inherit the building, the document explains.
