India, Jan. 12 -- The Taliban's new charge d'affaires at the Afghan embassy in New Delhi met the external affairs ministry's pointperson for the region on Monday to discuss political and economic relations and the expansion of trade.

Noor Ahmad Noor, the first Taliban-appointed official posted in the Indian capital since the group took control of Afghanistan in August 2021, arrived in the country over the weekend. His meeting with Anand Prakash, the joint secretary heading the external affairs ministry's Pakistan-Afghanistan-Iran division, was announced on social media by the Afghan embassy.

Noor and Prakash held detailed discussions on "bilateral political and economic relations, the expansion of trade, facilitation of visa processes a...