Taliban ministers meet Indian women journalists after the outbreak

It is often said that a picture can speak a thousand words.

On Monday morning, one of the Indian newspapers has shown a female journalist who seized the leading-ruling seats at the Foreign Minister of Afghan Taliban in Delhi.

The second press event given by Amir Khan Muttaki of the Afghan embassy at the Afghan Embassy was summoned after the conference. A huge confusion Except for women from Friday’s first meeting.

At a Sunday conference, Muttaki said that the exclusion was unaware and there was no “intentional”.

“In the context of a press conference (Friday), it was briefly on the suggestion and a small list of journalists was decided and the list of participation was very specific.

He said, “This was a more technical problem … our colleagues had decided to send an invitation to the journalist’s specific list and there was no other purpose,” he added.

UN is referred to as a “gender racist” situation in Afghanistan where women and girls are not allowed to go to secondary schools or universities, do not visit parks or gymnasiums. The jobs they are allowed to do are restricted and the Taliban government implement Head-to-to-to-coating and prevents their travel.

The Talib government has earlier said that the Taliban government, who has withdrawn power in 2, respecting the rights of women according to the explanation of Afghan culture and Islamic law, but Western diplomats said that their efforts to gain their efforts to gain approval on women. According to their rules, the repression of women’s rights is the most difficult in the world.

Matki Arrived in India on Thursday Russia has been in a high-level discussion with the Russia government for a week, so far the only country will fully recognize their government.

Delhi did not formally accommodate the D Facto rulers of Afghanistan, but is one of the many countries who have some kind of diplomacy or informal relationships, even by maintaining a small mission in Kabul.

The visit is seen as an extending relationship between the countries and is important for both of them – while the Taliban government is encouraged to get approval, India progresses its strategic and security interests. On Friday, Mutataki met Foreign Minister S Jayashankar. He announced that India will resume his embassy in Kabul, which was closed after the Taliban returned to power in the 5th.

About 16 men were present at the press event of the latter day, while the female journalist went away from the embassy gates.

A source of the Taliban government had confessed that women were not invited to attend.

Due to the Afghan Embassy, ​​the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MEA) said that “he had no involvement in the press dialogue”.

But gender discrimination on Indian soil caused the anger of politicians and journalists who criticized the government.

Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi said that by allowing the incident to go ahead, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi was saying to every woman in India that you are too weak to stand for them. “

Editor Gild of India, Indian Woman Press Corps (IWPC) and Network of Woman in Media, India (NWMI) have called the boycott “extremely discriminatory.”

“The diplomatic area can claim protection at the Vienna session, which cannot prove the justification of shameless sexual discrimination in the entry of Indian soil,” Gild said.

“It is very annoying that the MEA had coordinated the incident or not to exclude such discrimination,” he said.

NWWI Said It was the responsibility of the Government of India to maintain the democratic rights and constitutional freedom of women, including the right to work and the right to livelihood, and they should ask such a question on such “sex -ling discrimination”.

The group also criticized the male journalists, who participated in the conference on Friday for not standing for their female colleagues. “In such moments, silence can be seen as complications to normalize sexual discrimination,” the statement said.

During the growing outcry in India, the Mataki team sent new invitations for Sunday’s interaction and described it as an open “consensus” program for all media employees.

It is not clear what caused the second press meeting – there are no official confirmation, but something has happened Betting That the Government of India may have intervened.

The conference was well attended, and for the reasons for keeping women out of the women’s meeting on Friday – and some strong questions were asked about the rights of Afghan girls and women.

“We have 10 million students in schools and institutions, including more than 1.8 million women and girls. Madrasas remains up to education degree in Madrasas,” Muttaki replied. He said, “Some limitations are in existence, but we never declared women’s education religiously Haram (forbidden), they have just been postponed to the next order,” he said.

Many journalists present at the press conference raised questions about the claims of the ministers, and since 2021, the Taliban pointed out the restrictions imposed on girls and women.

In the last four years, girls over the age of 12 have been banned from getting education and job options for women have been strictly prohibited. In recent weeks, the Taliban government Removed the books written by women From universities in Afghanistan.

Ministers’ response to the rights of women’s rights in Afghanistan may not be satisfactory. But, as some reporters said, another press conference was organized and the ministers asked questions on sexual issues that could be seen as progress.