The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) has condemned the exclusion of women journalists from the press conference addressed by Taliban-controlled Afghanistan’s Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi at the Afghanistan Embassy in New Delhi on Friday, October 10.

While India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has said it had no role to play in the decision to bar women’s entry to the press conference, the NWMI said it was unfortunate that the Union government did not take a clear stand against the exclusion. “By not making it clear that the exclusion of women journalists from the press conference was not acceptable, the MEA and the Union government have failed to stand by Indian women in general and female working journalists in particular,” a statement from NWMI said.

The statement als

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