Taliban Excludes Women Journalists: Taslima Nasreen Condemns "Dehumanizing" Treatment During Afghan Minister's India Visit

Oct 11, 2025 08:02 pm CST

Exiled author Taslima Nasreen denounces Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi for barring women journalists from his Delhi press conference, highlighting the Taliban's systematic erasure of women from public life and calling the regime's misogynistic practices "barbaric." The incident has sparked political outrage in India during the first high-level Taliban delegation visit since their 2021 return to power.