{"id":17123,"date":"2026-07-09T13:50:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T13:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/09\/fourth-india-afghanistan-joint-committee-new-delhi\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T13:50:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T13:50:26","slug":"fourth-india-afghanistan-joint-committee-new-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/09\/fourth-india-afghanistan-joint-committee-new-delhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourth India-Afghanistan Joint Committee Meeting Held in New Delhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s Ministry of External Affairs announced that the fourth round of the India-Afghanistan Joint Committee meeting was held today, Thursday, in New Delhi. The meeting was co-chaired by Anand Prakash, Head of the Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran Division at India&#8217;s Ministry of External Affairs, and Shoaib Bryali, First Political Secretary of the Taliban&#8217;s Foreign Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Randeep Goyal, spokesperson for India&#8217;s Ministry of External Affairs, wrote on the social media platform X that during this round of talks, both sides discussed and exchanged views on all aspects of bilateral relations between India and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Further details on the specific topics of the discussions have not been released. However, this meeting takes place while the Taliban administration remains unrecognized by many countries and Afghanistan&#8217;s diplomatic relations with the world remain complicated. Nevertheless, New Delhi has maintained working contacts with Taliban officials in recent years to pursue political, economic, and humanitarian issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fourth India-Afghanistan Joint Committee meeting was held in New Delhi, discussing bilateral relations amid complex diplomatic challenges with the Taliban government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}