Afghan Embassy in India resumes operations

A week after announcing the permanent closure of the Afghan embassy in India, two Afghan diplomats have now announced the reopening of the embassy in New Delhi to provide consular services.

Sayed Mohammad Ibrahim Khail, the Consul General of Afghanistan in Hyderabad city, said that he along with Zakia Wardak, the Consul General of the country in Mumbai, at the request of the Indian government, has taken responsibility for the consular affairs of the Afghan Embassy in New Delhi.

“The foreign ministry of India requested us to take care of the work of the consular section of the embassy in addition to the work in Mumbai and Hyderabad to address the problems of thousands of Afghans who are in the work area of ​​the Afghan embassy in Delhi,” said Ibrahim Khail.

The Afghan Embassy in India announced the temporary suspension of its activities in early October and said that this decision was taken due to the lack of support from the Indian government and the failure to provide services to the Afghan people.

“The activity and non-activity of an embassy depends on the permission of the host country,” said a political analyst.

Meanwhile, the deputy spokesman of the Islamic Emirate Bilal Karimi also started his work as the new ambassador of Afghanistan in China today (Friday, December 1, 2023).

In his introduction ceremony, Karimi called China’s role in the sectors of investment, infrastructure restoration, development projects, and reconstruction and stability in Afghanistan important and emphasized the expansion of relations between the two countries.

These efforts are being made but the IEA has not been recognized yet as a legitimate government in Afghanistan.

However, including India, Afghan diplomats are accepted and active in almost all countries of the region.