New Delhi: Women journalists were not invited to the press conference of Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in Delhi on Friday, October 10. The incident triggered massive backlash as it again highlighted the gender bias of the Taliban administration in Afghanistan.

Several Opposition leaders, including P Chidambaram, expressed shock and disappointment over the exclusion of women journalists from the press briefing. The former Union Home Minister was of the opinion that male journalists should have boycotted the presser and walked out of it in support of 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 foun

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