New Delhi: The opposition on Saturday termed the absence of female journalists from a press conference of visiting Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi “unacceptable” and “an insult to women”, and asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to clarify his position on the matter.

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said if the prime minister’s recognition of women’s rights isn’t just convenient posturing from one election to the other, how has this “insult to some of India’s most competent women been allowed in our country”.

The Congress said it was shocking and unacceptable that the government of India agreed to the “ban on female journalists” at the presser in Delhi.

In a post on X, Congress general secretary in-charge communications, Jairam Ramesh, said, “(Tali)ban on female

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