The Afghan Taliban spokesman explained on Saturday that the absence of female journalists at a press conference addressed by the leader of the Taliban and Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in Nový Dilli was unintentional.
The press conference, organized at Afghanistan Embassy in Nový Delhi after two -sided interviews between the Minister of the External Affairs with Jaishankar and Muttaqi, caused extensive criticism after journalists claimed to be denied entry.
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After the official meeting between the two ministers, no common press briefing took place, and the Afghan side itself performed a separate media interaction in its embassies.
What did the Afghan spokesman said?
News18 reported about the Afghan spokesperson that Muttaqi regularly cooperates with female journalists in his office in Kabul. It is assumed that the spokesman referred to non -Afghan reporters, which are usually obliged to monitor the strict dressing code when meeting Taliban officials, the report said.
“Muttaqi regularly meets women in their Kabul office. I myself do interviews with female journalists,” News18 spokesman said.
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.
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Rather than a milder approach, the Taliban systematically expanded and intensified its limitations on women’s life and effectively erased them from public existence.
Earlier on the day, after the opposition parties’ resistance, the Ministry for External Affairs (MEA) clarified that it had no “involvement” in the press interaction.
“MEA did not attack the press interaction, which was Afghan FM in Delhi yesterday,” the ministry said.
What did the Congress leaders say?
The exclusion of female journalists has triggered national political outrage. The leader of the Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi to clarify his position on the incident and call him an “insult to Indian journalists”.
In the paper on X, she said: “Prime Minister Narendra Modi, please explain your position to remove female journalists from a press conference by a Taliban representative while visiting India.
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 female journalists were excluded from a press conference addressed by Mr. Amir Khan Muttaqi.
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“I am shocked that women’s 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 not invited),” Chidambarram said in the X post.
If your recognition of women’s rights is not just a comfortable posture from one choice to another, as was allowed in our country this insults for some of the most conventional women in India?
The visit of Minister Taliban, which began on October 9 and will continue until October 16, is the first high -level delegation from Kabul to India because the Taliban confiscated power in Afghanistan in August 2021.
(With the entry from agencies)
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