India’s invite to Taliban envoy in UAE is routine, and officials state no change in stance

The greeting from the Indian Consulate in the UAE to the Acting Afghan Diplomat and Taliban agent Badruddin Haqqani for the Republic Day gathering is “standard”, official sources expressed, responding to analysis that the Modi government is ‘normalizing’ the Taliban system, particularly those answerable for fear assaults on Indian missions before.

Badruddin Haqqani, the Charge d’Affaires at the Afghan Consulate in Abu Dhabi, was previously an individual from the Haqqani organization, and is accepted to be a nearby partner of its heads, Taliban Inside Priest Sirajuddin Haqqani and his dad, Jalaluddin Haqqani.

The sources said that the greeting had gone out as a standard practice to all discretionary missions certify by the UAE government, except for Pakistan (with whom India’s political ties are frozen). Likewise, the Indian Consulate in Abu Dhabi addressed the solicitation to the emissary of the Consulate of the “Islamic Republic of Afghanistan”, not the Islamic Emirate, and the sources called attention to that the Afghan Government office in UAE actually flies the Republic tricolor. India also has permitted the Government office in Delhi, shut down in fight by the past Diplomat Farid Mamundzay, to be returned by Afghan Emissaries who are more drawn in with the Taliban system, however the banner on the consulate has not changed to the Taliban system’s.

The Haqqani network was considered answerable for a few assaults on Indian missions in Afghanistan, including the 2008 Kabul Consulate vehicle bombarding in which 58 individuals were killed, including two senior Indian representatives and two Indian security powers faculty.

The Indian diplomatic community was surprised by the invitation to one of the group, addressed to “His Excellency Badruddin Haqqani,” which was shared on social media by Afghan journalist Bilal Sarwary.

“This [invitation] is absolutely against Afghans’ fundamental assumption for India as an arising popularity based ability to safeguard and shield Afghans’ common freedoms and to help their developing obstruction against similar fear mongers who bombarded the Indian Consulate in Kabul and killed and injured numerous Indian residents,” Afghanistan’s Envoy to Sri Lanka Ashraf Haidari, who addresses the Republic from before the Taliban takeover in 2021, said. ” Afghans encourage India to end any standardization of the Taliban,” he added.

Until now, no nation has recognized the Taliban regime.

Nonetheless, in a few nations, including Russia, China and Focal Asian states, Taliban delegates have been licensed as Acting Diplomats and the Taliban’s black and white “Islamic Emirates” banner has been raised rather than the Republic’s dark, green and red tricolor.

China was the first nation to accept Bilal Karimi, a Taliban appointee, as a fully accredited Ambassador in December 2023.

A query regarding whether Indian embassies in Beijing, Moscow, and other nations would also invite Afghan envoys appointed by the Taliban and accredited by host governments was not answered by the Ministry of External Affairs.