{"id":13766,"date":"2025-10-12T23:34:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T19:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=13766"},"modified":"2025-10-12T23:34:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T19:04:23","slug":"taliban-holds-second-meeting-in-delhi-with-female-journalists-in-attendance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/taliban-holds-second-meeting-in-delhi-with-female-journalists-in-attendance\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban holds second meeting in Delhi with female journalists in attendance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13764\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/zan-hidd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/zan-hidd.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/zan-hidd-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/zan-hidd-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/zan-hidd-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/zan-hidd-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Taliban holds second meeting in Delhi with female journalists in attendance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Following widespread criticism of the exclusion of female journalists from the previous Taliban meeting at the Afghan embassy in Delhi, a new meeting was held on Sunday with a large attendance of female journalists.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>A picture of an Indian female journalist\u2019s \u201ctriumphant smile\u201d at the meeting quickly went viral on social media and was seen as a symbol of the media\u2019s reaction to the Taliban\u2019s retreat from gender restrictions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The incident began after the Taliban did not allow Indian female journalists to enter their press conference on Friday, a move that sparked a wave of political and social criticism in India.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Opponents of the Narendra Modi government called the move \u201cdisrespectful to Indian women by the Taliban\u201d and called on the government to take a firm stand against such behavior.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Following these pressures, the Indian Ministry of External Affairs asked Amir Khan Muttaqi, the Taliban\u2019s foreign minister, to hold a new meeting with female journalists in attendance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The meeting was held on Sunday, and female journalists were in the front row, asking Muttaqi questions about women&#8217;s rights to education and work in Afghanistan.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban holds second meeting in Delhi with female journalists in attendance. Following widespread criticism of the exclusion of female journalists from the previous Taliban meeting at the Afghan embassy in Delhi, a new meeting was held on Sunday with a large attendance of female journalists. A picture of an Indian female journalist\u2019s \u201ctriumphant smile\u201d at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13772,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13766\/revisions\/13772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}