Visiting US special envoy for Afghanistan Thomas West on Tuesday held high-level talks with Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and the country's Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla in the national capital.

After the two meetings, Indian External Affairs Ministry said that the top officials exchanged views on recent developments and issues of common interest in war-torn Afghanistan.

"Foreign Secretary @harshvshringla met US Special Representative for Afghanistan Thomas West @US4AfghanPeace and exchanged views on recent developments and issues of common interest in Afghanistan,” Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi tweeted.

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India was among several countries that evacuated their diplomatic staff from Kabul when the Taliban took over the Afghan capital on August 15, with the US troops ending their 20-year military presence in the South Asian country. The same day, India stopped flight services with Afghanistan.

However, exactly two weeks later, India began direct communication with the Taliban. The country's envoy in Qatar, Deepak Mittal, held talks with Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai, the head of the Taliban's Political Office, in the Indian Embassy in the Gulf state's capital Doha, according to the Foreign Ministry.

At that meeting, Ambassador Mittal had raised India's concern that Afghanistan's soil should not be used for anti-Indian activities and terrorism in any manner, "to which Abbas Stanekzai assured him that these issues would be positively addressed", the Ministry had said.

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India is worried about the security situation in Afghanistan, given it has already infused over three billion USD worth development aid into that country and the horrific memories of the Taliban's role in the hijacking of an Indian airliner in 1999.

At the time too, the nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party was in power, led by then Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee.