Synopsis: Senior independent journalist Nayanima Basu, took to X, and wrote: “Right under the Indian government’s nose, in the heart of the capital city, the Afghan Foreign Minister Muttaqi holds a press conference, intentionally excluding any female journalists. How can this be allowed? Who approved such an outrageous disregard for representation?”

On Friday, 10 October, at a press meet of Afghanistan’s Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, held in New Delhi, women journalists were barred.

This was India’s first high level engagement with the Taliban since their takeover of Kabul in August 2021.

According to The Wire report, invitations for the briefing were extended to around 17 media outlets, all of which were represented by male journalists. A couple of women journalists eve

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