Former Union Home Minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram expressed shock and disappointment over the exclusion of women journalists from Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi’s press conference in New Delhi.

He felt that male journalists should have boycotted the event in solidarity with their female colleagues.

“I am shocked that women journalists were excluded from the press conference addressed by Mr Amir Khan Muttaqi of Afghanistan. In my personal view, the men journalists should have walked out when they found that their women colleagues were excluded (or not invited),” he said in a post on X.

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A controversy erupted in New Delhi over a press conference by the Taliban’s acting Foreign Minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, where Indian women journalists were alleg

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