Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind President Maulana Arshad Madani on Saturday said that what is happening with women in Afghanistan is “wrong” and added that wherever there is a madrassa in the world, the same religious teachings are imparted.

Responding to reports of women journalists being excluded from a press conference addressed by Afghanistan’s Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in New Delhi on Friday, Madani said it was “just a coincidence” and that women were not specifically asked not to attend.

His remarks came after a meeting with the visiting Afghan Foreign Minister.

“We did not talk about that (ban on education for women in Afghanistan)… There is no difference in our religious teachings anywhere in the world, and we all preach the same things… Wherever there is a madrassa in the world, t

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