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 said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s silence in the face of such discrimination exposes the “emptiness” of his slogans on ‘Nari Shakti’.

The Indian Women’s Press Corps (IWPC) said the act was “highly discriminatory” and urged the government to take the matter up with the Afghan Embassy to ensure that such gender-based exclusion in media briefings does not occur in the future.

Earlier, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi launched a scathing attack on Modi over the absence of female journalists from the presser, saying by allowing “exclusion” of women scribes from a public forum, the prime minister is tel

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