MUMBAI (The Thursday Times) — Afghanistan’s consul general in Mumbai has called on Iran’s consulate in the city for talks on strengthening cooperation and expanding bilateral ties, the Iranian consulate said on Wednesday.
He met Iran’s Consul General, Motlagh, and the head of its consular section, Tajik, according to the consulate, which shared photographs of the meeting on X. It gave no further details and did not name the Afghan diplomat.
The Taliban administration has been placing its own appointees in Afghanistan’s missions in India since late 2024, when it named an acting consul in Mumbai. India later said it would upgrade its mission in Kabul to a full embassy after the Taliban’s foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, visited New Delhi in October 2025.
Iran and India are also tied to Afghanistan through the port of Chabahar in south-eastern Iran, which India has developed as a trade route to Afghanistan and Central Asia.
