The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) explained on Saturday that it did not participate in a press conference performed by Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in Delhi.
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A press conference addressed by Afghan Foreign Minister Muttaqi recorded the participation limited to a handful of reporters, while women were a striking absence.
“Mea did not participate in the press interaction in Delhi, which took place yesterday by Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi,” said the Ministry for External Affairs (MEA).
However, PTI said it quoted sources that the Indian party has proposed the Afghan party that journalists should be part of the invited event.
The decision to invite journalists to interact with the media was taken by Taliban officials accompanying the Foreign Minister, and PTI previously informed.
The Taliban regime in Kabul faced serious criticism from different countries and global authorities, such as the UN for restricting women’s rights in Afghanistan.
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Muttaqi even lacks a direct question about the situation of women in Afghanistan, but said that each country has its own customs, laws and principles and should be respected.
In Nový Delhi, a controversy broke out at a press conference of the reigning Foreign Minister Taliban Amir Khan Muttaqi, where Indian journalists were reportedly forbidden to visit the embassy of Afghanistan.
Congress MP Pic Chidambarama was more critical to the government of the party Bharatiya Janat (BJP) in this matter and expressed his disappointment with the Minister of External Affairs with Jaishankar.
“I understand the geopolitical urge that forces us to engage in the Taliban, but in order to proceed to their discriminatory and simple primitive plagues, it is ridiculous. It is very disappointing to record the behavior of the Ministry of External Affairs and Jaishankar in the exclusion of women’s journalists from the press briefing,” he said.
Minister of Taliban is on a weekly visit to India from October 9 to October 16. This is the first high -level delegation from Kabul to India because Taliban took control of Afghanistan in August 2021.
The official meeting was followed by no common print briefing.
Instead, the Afghan delegation carried out a separate media interaction in the embassy.
At this event Muttaqi spoke about a number of regional questions, including relations between India-Afghanistan, humanitarian aid, business connectivity and security cooperation.
Only selected journalists and officials from the Afghan embassy took part in a press conference.
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As part of the “Taliban 2.0” regime, which took over power in August 2021, Afghan women and girls are facing the most difficult crisis of women’s rights in the world.
Rather than a milder approach, the Taliban systematically expanded and intensified its limitations on women’s life and effectively erased them from public existence.
(With the entry from agencies)
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