modern DELHI, Aug. 26 Kyodo India...

modern DELHI, Aug. 26 Kyodo

Indian External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha upon Monday said India plans to render free of access three more consulates in Afghanistan in order to strengthen ties between the couple countries.

India, which popularly has a consulate in Mazar-e-Sherif, in northern Afghanistan, plans to put up consulates in Herat, western Afghanistan, in Jalalabad, eastern Afghanistan, and in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan, Sinha told reporters, according to the Indian recents agency PTI.

The fall of the fundamentalist Taliban conduct in Afghanistan, which was closely allied to Pakistan, has apted the Indian government to strengthen its ties with the post-Taliban Afghan regulation of President Hamid Karzai.

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