Oppn up in arms over women journalists barred from Taliban press meet

COMING down heavily on the Modi government over the exclusion of female journalists from a press conference of visiting Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, the opposition on Saturday termed the incident 'shocking and unacceptable', saying it dishonored Indian women by allowing the Taliban minister to do so.

- PREETHA NAIR @ New Delhi

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra sought PM Modi to clarify his position on the incident. "If your recognition of women's rights isn't just convenient posturing from one election to the other, then how has this insult to some of India's most competent women been allowed in our country, a country whose women are its backbone and its pride," she posted on X. Sharing her post on X, Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi said that by allowing "exclusion" of women scribes from a public for