India, Oct. 2 -- Taliban foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi will visit India next week for a meeting with external affairs minister S Jaishankar after securing a waiver to a travel ban under UN Security Council sanctions, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday.

This will be the first visit to India by any senior Taliban leader since the group seized power in Afghanistan after the collapse of the Ashraf Ghani government in August 2021. People familiar with planning for the visit on both sides said on condition of anonymity that Muttaqi is expected to reach New Delhi on October 10.

A meeting of the 1988 sanctions committee of the UN Security Council held on September 30 approved an exemption to the travel ban for Muttaqi to visi...