During his week-long visit, Muttaqi will also travel to Deoband on Saturday (October 11) to visit the Dar ul Uloom seminary, the ideological home of the Taliban, and to Agra on Sunday (October 12) to see the Taj Mahal, which he reportedly requested.

Muttaqi, who served as a minister in the previous Taliban government from 1996-2001 and is listed as a sanctioned terrorist by the United Nations Security Council, will address the media, speak at the Vivekananda International Foundation think-tank, and meet Afghan traders at a FICCI-hosted event. He is also expected to meet National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, whose role in the IC-814 hostage negotiations in 1999 remains historically significant.