Opposition leaders have expressed shock and disappointment after women journalists were barred from attending Afghan foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi’s press conference in New Delhi.

Reacting to it, former union home minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram said 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.

Tensions flared in New Delhi as reports emerged that Indian women journalists were barred from attending a press conference by Tali

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