US EditionAnger after female journalists excluded from Afghan embassy event in India
Only male journalists were invited to the Taliban foreign minister's press conference in New Delhi, prompting criticism over India’s diplomatic stance and gender discrimination concerns.
- Female journalists were excluded from a press event with the Afghan Taliban Foreign Minister in Delhi, drawing criticism from Indian politicians and journalists.
- A source in the Taliban government confirmed that women were not invited to attend the event.
- Rahul Gandhi stated that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's actions signaled that women in India are 'too weak to stand up for them.'
- The Editors Guild of India condemned the exclusion, calling it 'deeply troubling' and discriminatory in nature.
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Taliban minister confronted by rare challenge on trip abroad: women journalists
Three days after being excluded from a press conference fronted by Taliban’s foreign minister in India, women journalists took their seats in a powerful show of force to question him about the social exclusion of Afghan women.
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The Afghan Foreign Minister is received in New Delhi on Monday, 13 October, in a sensitive diplomatic context. Amir Khan Muttaqi's visit is marked by a controversy: the exclusion of women journalists from his first press conference. A decision perceived as an affront and which has aroused the outrage of the Indian media. At the same time, Afghan refugees wonder about this sudden rapprochement with the Taliban regime. It is in this context that N…
This viral photo is from a VIF event in Delhi, not Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi’s press conference on 10 October 2025
Amid the controversy over Afghanistan’s Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi’s press conference in the Afghan Embassy in New Delhi where women journalists were not allowed to attend the event, a photo circulating on social media (here, here, and here) shows a meeting or conference in a hall with several people seated, including some women, claiming that women journalists were indeed present at the press conference held on 10 October 2025, …
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