When Amir Khan Muttaqi, the foreign minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, met with his Indian counterpart, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, in New Delhi on Oct. 10, the fragile scaffolding of India’s engagement with the Taliban was on full view. All official communications from the Indian side referred to Muttaqi as simply the “Afghan foreign minister.” At the meeting, neither the tricolor flag of Afghanistan’s erstwhile republic nor the white banner of the Islamic Emirate

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