Indian Journalist: Taliban Brought Discrimination Against Women to Delhi
Following the prevention of female journalists from attending a press conference by the Taliban’s Foreign Minister, Sohini Haidar, a renowned Indian journalist and Foreign Affairs Editor of The Hindu, stated that the Indian government, by officially hosting the Taliban, has brought their misogynistic discrimination to its own soil. She wrote on X: "This is a stance of surrender, not diplomacy."
Amir Khan Muttaqi, the Taliban’s Foreign Minister, who recently visited India, attended a press conference at the Afghan Embassy in Delhi on Saturday, October 10. Several major Indian media outlets, including India Today and Times Now, were invited to cover the event, but security personnel at the embassy barred female journalists from entering.
Prominent Indian journalists have called on the government to respond to such behavior on its own soil. A veteran journalist at CNN-News18 wrote in a note: “When the Taliban excludes women from a press conference in the heart of New Delhi, the silence of the Indian government is concerning.”
She said: Young girls and women of Afghanistan have been invisibilised, degraded and dehumanised under the Taliban 2.0 regime. As India warms up to the Taliban, I explain the reasons and chronology behind these developments, why is it necessary from a security perspective and why I still hope India and the world will speak up for their rights even amid hard core geopolitical and transactional realignments.
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