India
oi-Vicky Nanjappa
New Delhi, Sep 04: Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla met top Biden administration officials, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Deputy Secretary Wendy Sherman, and held substantive discussions with them on the strategic bilateral ties and regional and global issues like the current situation in Afghanistan after the Taliban seized Kabul said a PTI report.
This was the first high-level discussion between the officials of the two countries after the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan on August 31.
Shringla, who arrived in the US capital on Wednesday from New York, met Blinken on Thursday at the Foggy Bottom headquarters of the State Department.
“Discussions touched on bilateral ties and the situation in Afghanistan,” Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said in a…