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The embassy in India - just like Afghanistan's embassies across the world - has chosen to maintain that it
continues to represent the earlier Afghanistan Republic.

It would be wrong, an official who spoke on condition of anonymity told me, to give
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Afghanistan, but not de jure, the official added, a stance he claims is similar to that
of all Afghanistan embassies spread across the globe, who, he says, are in regular
touch with each other. This strategy, he says, is being steered by former ministers,
almost all of whom are in exile.

The embassies have been emboldened by the reluctance of much of the world
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Republic until their (the Taliban) government receives wider global recognition.
Until then, the embassy is operating in a sort of jurisdictional twilight zone, mainly
providing consular services to the sizeable Afghan diaspora in India.

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last us a few months," he said. What after that? The official said that diplomats
and bureaucrats like him are hopeful that the ground reality in Afghanistan will
change, with the emergence of a united resistance to the Taliban.

The Islamic Emirate may have de facto control of Afghanistan, but not de jure, an official at the embassy in India
said.

During the previous Taliban regime, which ruled Afghanistan from1996-2001, a

large swathe of the country's north remained under the control of a coalition of
anti-Taliban commanders known as the "Northern Alliance". Countries like India
recognised the Alliance as Afghanistan's government in exile, providing legitimacy
and funds to the Afghan embassy in Delhi. This time, however, every pocket of
anti-Taliban resistance has collapsed, including the holdout Panjshir Valley region
north of Kabul. The whereabouts of the resistance's main leaders, Ahmad
Massoud, son of the late Northern Alliance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud, and
former Vice President Amrullah Saleh, remain unclear.

But the official was hopeful. "The Taliban are not strong," he said, "we were weak.
If we unite, things will be different."

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(Sreenivasan Jain is Group Editor, NDTV)

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