After severe backlash over women journalists being barred from Afghan foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi's first press conference, the second presser witnessed female scribes' participation in good number.

Pictures on social media show women journalists with their male counterparts seated at the venue where the Afghan minister was scheduled to hold his second press conference in India.

Media bodies on Saturday condemned the \"exclusion\" of women journalists at a press conference held by Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi at the Afghan Embassy here.

The Editors Guild of India and the Indian Women Press Corps (IWPC) termed the act as highly discriminatory, which cannot be justified on grounds of diplomatic privilege under the Vienna Convention.

\"While diplomatic premises may cla

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