Pakistan to designate an ambassador to neighbouring Taliban-run Afghanistan

In a move that aims to ease previously strained relations between the neighboring nations, Pakistan has announced it will designate an ambassador to Afghanistan. This will be the first ambassador since the Taliban re-entered and captured Kabul in 2021.

Ishaq Dar, the foreign minister of Pakistan, stated in a statement on Friday that his visit to Kabul in April had improved relations with Afghanistan. I’m pleased to announce the government of Pakistan’s decision to raise the charge d’affaires in Kabul to an ambassadorial level, he said, “to maintain this momentum.”

Amir Khan Muttaqi and Wang Yi met at a trilateral meeting in Beijing, and Dar’s announcement comes a week later.

Dar expressed hope that the decision will boost bilateral trade, boost economic cooperation, and boost cooperation in battling terrorism.

After my extremely fruitful visit to Kabul with the Pakistan delegation on April 19, 2025, relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan are on a positive note. I’m pleased to report the government of Pakistan’s decision to raise the level of its Chargé…

The Pakistani government’s claims that Kabul, which is known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP, are an allies of the Afghan Taliban have long strained tensions between the two nations.

Since the Afghan Taliban’s resurrected four years ago, TTP is a distinct organization that has boosted its popularity.

Kabul did not respond to the most recent development right away. Pakistan had earlier indicated that the two countries were thinking about improving diplomatic relations.

The presence of Afghan refugees and migrants in Pakistan is another crucial factor. According to the United Nations International Organization for Migration (IOM), Islamabad has increased forced mass deportation, with some tens of thousands crossing the border in April to give way to an uncertain future in Afghanistan.

After Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif revealed a three-phase plan to send Afghans back to their home countries, nearly three million of them are currently facing deportation. Many of them have been there for decades as wars have plagued their country.

Although Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban currently have embassy bases in each other’s capitals, charges d’affaires, or ambassadors, are in charge.

Pakistan, China, the United Arab Emirates, and Uzbekistan are the only other nations to design an ambassador to Kabul.

Foreign powers have threatened to not recognize the Taliban administration until it changes its mind regarding women’s rights, but no country has done so.