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The Ministry of External Affairs on Saturday (October 11, 2025) clarified that the press interaction held on Friday, October 10) was not attended by the Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in Nový Dilli.
The statement comes after the trailer attracted severe criticism over the exclusion of journalists. According to PTI, it is found that the decision to invite journalists to interact with the media was taken by Taliban officials accompanying the Foreign Minister.
“Mea did not participate in the press interaction held yesterday by the Afghan FM in Delhi,” the ministry said on Saturday (October 11).
Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who responded to the news, described the incident as “insulting some of the most conquering women in India”.
The Secretary General of Congress said that if the recognition of the rights of the Prime Minister’s women is not just a comfortable possession of the body from one choice to another, as this “insult to some of the most repurcure women in India” was allowed in our country.
The press conference was organized at the Afghanistan Embassy in Nový Delhi after two -sided interviews between the Minister of External Affairs S. Jaishankar and Mr. Muttaqi. After the official meeting between the two ministers and the Afghan side, there was no common press briefing briefing, in its embassy it performed a separate media interaction.
The former Minister of the Interior of the Union and the leader of the Congress leader P. Chidambarama also expressed shock and disappointment and said that journalists should be published in solidarity with their colleagues. “I am shocked that journalists were excluded from a press conference addressed by Mr. Amir Khan Muttaqi of Afghanistan. In my personal perspective, men should go out when they found out that their women were excluded (or did not invite),” Mr. Chidambaram said in the X post.
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.
On Friday, Muttaqi lacked 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.
With entry from agencies
Published – 11 October 2025 11:03
