Kabul, April 29 -- In a significant diplomatic outreach, India's Special Representative Anand Prakash travelled to Kabul for talks with senior Taliban leaders, including Afghanistan's Foreign Minister, Maulvi Amir Khan Muttaqi.

Prakash held wide-ranging discussions against the backdrop of rapidly deteriorating ties between New Delhi and Islamabad.

The engagement follows the brutal terror attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, on April 22, which claimed 26 lives, most of them Hindu tourists.

The assault, conducted by The Resistance Front (TRF)-a proxy of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba-marked by chilling religious profiling, drew global condemnation.

The assailants forced victims to recite Islamic verses and subjected them to humili...