(New Delhi) The Afghan embassy in New Delhi announced that it would end its activity in India on Sunday in a press release, more than two years after the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan.
“It is with deep sadness, regret and disappointment that the Afghan Embassy in New Delhi announces its decision to cease its operations” with immediate effect, it is written in the document posted on ).
India does not recognize the Taliban government which returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021.
She had authorized the Afghan embassy to continue its activity under the aegis of the ambassador and the team appointed by former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, who fled the country when American troops withdrew.
According to the embassy press release, it was becoming “increasingly difficult” to operate in particular due to reductions in staff and resources, including the “lack of sufficient and timely support for the renewal of diplomats’ visas”.
The announcement of the closure comes after reports that the ambassador and other senior diplomats had left India in recent months amid conflict between those remaining in New Delhi.
Also in the press release, the embassy “categorically refutes any unfounded assertion regarding an internal dispute.” She also denies that diplomats used the crisis to “seek asylum in a third country”.
India will inherit the building, the document specifies.