Foreign Minister S Jaishankar Cuts Short Overseas Visit Amid Afghan Crisis: Report

Afghanistan Crisis: Sources said that given the developments relating to Afghanistan, Mr Jaishankar will return to India sooner and not travel to Mexico, Panama and Guyana. The Ministry of External Affairs has not officially announced the minister's visits to the three countries.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will return to India on Friday and not travel onwards to Mexico, Panama and Guyana in view of the developments in Afghanistan, sources said. India on Tuesday rushed back home its ambassador Rudrendra Tandon and staff from the embassy in Kabul in a military transport aircraft following escalating tension, fear and uncertainty gripping the Afghan capital after the Taliban seized the Afghan capital on Sunday. Mr Jaishankar arrived in New York on Monday to chair meetings in the UN Security Council on technology and peacekeeping and on counter-terrorism under India's current presidency of the Council. On Thursday, before he departs for India, he will chair the high-level event on counter-terrorism during which the Council will discuss the Secretary General's six-monthly report on the threat posed by ISIS/Da'esh, under the agenda item 'Threats to International Peace and Security caused by Terrorist Acts'.