Jaishankar, Muttaqi likely to hold bilateral meet at Tashkent SCO summit

In the meeting at the SCO summit, which will be the first face-to-face interaction between the two leaders, issues like humanitarian aid to Afghans are likely to be discussed

On the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) foreign ministers meeting in Tashkent, foreign affairs minister S Jaishankar might hold a bilateral meeting with Afghanistan's foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi. The Taliban government has been requesting the meeting since June, The Print reported. 

The SCO meeting is being held under the presidency of Uzbekistan this year. In June, the Indian government decided to reopen its embassy in Kabul for the first time since it was shut after the Taliban took over the country in 2021. 

In the meeting, which will be the first face-to-face interaction between the two leaders,