Abdullah Abdullah, chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation, will visit India on October 6, India Today reported, and he is expected to seek support for the Afghan peace negotiations from Indian leaders.
This would be his first visit to New Delhi as reconciliation council chairman.
In September, a delegation from India went to Doha for the inauguration ceremony of Afghanistan’s peace negotiations.
India’s External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar delivered his remarks virtually at the ceremony, saying: “Our friendship with Afghanistan is strong and unshaken, we have always been good neighbours and will always be so. Our expectation is that the soil of Afghanistan should never be used for any anti-India activities.”
“The interests of the minorities, women and vulnerable must be ensured,” he asserted.
Last week, Abdullah also visited Pakistan and discussed the Afghan peace process with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Foreign Minister and other Pakistani officials.
