Get Premium
Taliban wanted Indian diplomats to remain in Kabul embassy
- The Taliban did not want India to vacate the Kabul embassy. According to sources, he had also sent a message to India in this regard. Indian diplomats' stay requests were not made directly, but through contacts.
- Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanizai, the head of the Taliban's political office in Qatar, tried to persuade India through sources in Kabul and Delhi that Indian diplomats should not leave Kabul.
- According to sources, when India was preparing to evacuate its diplomats after the Taliban's capture of Kabul on August 15, Stanikzai sent a message through his liaison that the Indian authorities should be told that they were not threatened in Kabul.
- It also said that if India is concerned that its embassy is at risk from Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Lashkar Jhangvi or Haqqani Group, then it is not so.
- Attempts were made to assure that Kabul is with the Taliban, there is no one else (Lashkar, Jaish, Jhangvi) here. But given the past record of the Taliban, it was not possible to trust him.
