{"id":19646,"date":"2026-08-15T06:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T06:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/15\/india-kabul-ties-afghan-soil-use-ban\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T06:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T06:30:15","slug":"india-kabul-ties-afghan-soil-use-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/15\/india-kabul-ties-afghan-soil-use-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"India Stresses Expanded Ties With Kabul and Ban on Use of Afghan Soil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s Ministry of External Affairs has said New Delhi has accelerated efforts to strengthen its long-standing and historic ties with Kabul, while also stressing that Afghan soil must not be used against any country.<\/p>\n<p>Randhir Jaiswal, spokesperson for India&#8217;s Ministry of External Affairs, said that recently the ground has been prepared for expanding cooperation between the two countries in the areas of trade development and regional connectivity.<\/p>\n<p>He added that India and Afghanistan have historic relations, and that New Delhi is seeking to expand these ties further.<\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s Ministry of External Affairs also reiterated that Afghan soil must not be used against any country.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, India has been one of the countries involved in Afghanistan&#8217;s development projects, and New Delhi&#8217;s relations with Kabul have always been regarded as one of the important axes in regional relations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India says it is deepening ties with Kabul and reiterates that Afghan soil must not be used against any country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19646","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=19646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}