New Delhi: Afghanistan’s Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi Sunday defended the Taliban’s record on women’s education, claiming 2.8 million are studying at seminaries across the country, while addressing a press conference here also attended by women journalists, following criticism over his previous media interaction with only male scribes.

Muttaqi’s visit to India has come under a cloud of criticism from a section of the Indian opposition and the media for his first press conference here Friday. When questioned about the total absence of female journalists at that press conference , Muttaqi Sunday said it was a “technical issue”.

“With regards to education, at present we have 10 million students attending schools and other educational institutes, of which, 2.8 million are wom

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