The situation in Afghanistan, regional security, trade and connectivity figured in a meeting between external affairs minister S Jaishankar and his Tajikistan counterpart Sirojiddin Muhriddin in New Delhi on Saturday.
Jaishankar thanked Tajikistan for the “tremendous support that you gave us during the evacuation of Indians from Afghanistan in August and September”. (ANI)
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Muhriddin is on a three-day visit to India and will join his counterparts from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan for the India-Central Asia Dialogue on Sunday. The Afghanistan crisis is expected to be discussed at the dialogue.
In his opening remarks at the meeting with Muhriddin, Jaishankar said India and Tajikistan, as neighbours of Afghanistan, “have been very concerned at the developments there”. A statement from the Tajik foreign ministry said the two discussed the security situation in the region.
Rezaul Hasan Laskar is Foreign Editor with the Hindustan Times, which he joined in 2015. He began as a journalist in his hometown of Shillong in northeast India and has worked in newspapers and wire services over the years. He moved to New Delhi in 1997 and initially focused on defence, national security, Jammu and Kashmir and the northeast, while also working of foreign policy and international relations. He has been part of the media delegation accompanying PMs on foreign visits and has reported from destinations ranging from Tibet to Ukraine. Between 2007 and 2013, he was the Press Trust of India correspondent in Pakistan, one of only two Indian journalists allowed to report from the country. He extensively covered Pakistan’s domestic politics and the life of the common people, as well as the fallout of the 2008 Mumbai attacks on India-Pakistan relations and the subsequent trial in Pakistan of the suspects involved in the attack. As part of his reportage in Pakistan, he travelled the breadth of the country, from the Swat Valley to Balochistan. Reza’s first gig in journalism was writing a weekly music column, and music – especially classic rock – remains a keen interest. He is also a movie buff and a keen photographer.
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