India hosted Taliban foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in Delhi last week, and a lot of people, politicians, journalists, and social media users had a meltdown. The Opposition saw an opportunity when there was a social media buzz that the Taliban press conference inside the Afghan Embassy ‘excluded’ women journalists. Rahul Gandhi and his sister joined in to attack the Modi government for ‘allowing’ the exclusion, ignoring the fact that the government of India does not, and should not, interfere in the administrative affairs of a foreign embassy.

Then there was the outrage of women journalists, who started blaming the government of India for welcoming the Taliban, along with their practices of misogyny. The Taliban later did invite them to their presser, after clarifying that the earlier

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