The Indian team is led by the Joint Secretary JP Singh from the Pakistan Afghanistan Iran (PAI) division of the MEA. Last year, Singh had meet the Taliban leadership on the sidelines of the Moscow format of talks on Afghanistan in Delhi.
The latest decree will make the lives of the women even worse in Afghanistan under Taliban as they will be required to wear the all-covering chador at all times in public.
The consignment was intercepted by the DRI based on specific intelligence that high-quality heroin was being smuggled in containers from Afghanistan to Gujarat’s Kandla port via Iran.