X user @ocjain4<\/a>\u00a0posted the photo, alleging that women reporters were present at the press conference of Afghanistan’s foreign minister. The caption also suggests that the controversy was riled up by the Opposition in cahoots with PM Modi’s detractors. (Archive<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n \u0938\u091a \u092f\u0939 \u092d\u0940 \u0939\u0948 \u0915\u093f \u0905\u092b\u093c\u0917\u093c\u093e\u0928\u093f\u0938\u094d\u0924\u093e\u0928 \u0915\u0947 \u0935\u093f\u0926\u0947\u0936 \u092e\u0902\u0924\u094d\u0930\u0940 \u0915\u0940 \u092a\u094d\u0930\u0947\u0938 \u0915\u093e\u0902\u092b\u094d\u0930\u0947\u0902\u0938 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u092e\u0939\u093f\u0932\u093e \u0930\u093f\u092a\u094b\u0930\u094d\u091f\u0930\u094d\u0938 \u092e\u094c\u091c\u0942\u0926 \u0925\u0940\u0902. \u092b\u094b\u091f\u094b \u0926\u0947\u0916\u093f\u092f\u0947 \u0914\u0930 \u0917\u093f\u0928 \u0932\u0940\u091c\u093f\u092f\u0947 \u0915\u093f\u0924\u0928\u0940 \u092e\u0939\u093f\u0932\u093e\u090f\u0902 \u0939\u0948\u0902… \u092e\u0941\u091d\u0947 \u0924\u094b 8-10 \u0926\u093f\u0916 \u0930\u0939\u0940 \u0939\u0948\u0902.<\/p>\n \u0932\u0947\u0915\u093f\u0928 \u092e\u094b\u0926\u0940 \u0935\u093f\u0930\u094b\u0927 \u0915\u0947 \u0930\u094b\u0917 \u0938\u0947 \u092a\u0940\u0922\u093c\u0940\u0924 \u0939\u092e\u093e\u0930\u0947 \u0935\u093f\u092a\u0915\u094d\u0937 \u0915\u094b \u0928\u0939\u0940\u0902 \u0926\u093f\u0916\u0940 \ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23 pic.twitter.com\/lRgCSynDT8<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Ocean Jain (@ocjain4) October 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Note that Alt News has previously debunked several viral claims made by this user. (See\u00a0here<\/a>,\u00a0here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n Several other users on X, like Mukesh Joshi<\/a>, Rohit Gujjar<\/a>, Jasraj Godara<\/a>, and others\u00a0also shared the photo with the viral claim. (Archives: 1<\/a>, 2<\/a>, 3<\/a>)<\/p>\n The claim was also viral on Facebook.<\/p>\n To verify the truth behind the claims, we ran a reverse image search on some key frames from the viral photo. This led us to an X post<\/a>, uploaded on the evening of October 10, by the Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF India), a think tank based in New Delhi. Several women can be seen attending an event where Amir Khan Muttaqi is on the dais.<\/p>\n Highlights from today’s interaction at the VIF with Afghanistan\u2019s Foreign Minister, H.E. Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi. \u2014 VIF India (@vifindia) October 10, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n As readers can see, one of the photos included in tis tweet is the viral photo. So it is clear that the viral photo is not from the press conference. The X post by VIF India makes it clear that the photos are from a programme attended by Muttaqi on their premises.<\/p>\n Media outlets, too, reported on Muttaqi’s interaction with scholars at the VIF. Some of these reports carried the same visual as the one which went viral. The report by IANS, for example:<\/p>\n On the other hand, female journalists present outside the Afghan embassy for Muttaqi’s press conference have confirmed that they were not allowed inside. This report<\/a> by The Wire’s Devirupa Mitra attests to that.<\/p>\n It is also worth mentioning, as this Hindustan Times<\/a> article explains, the host country (India, in this case) has little jurisdiction to intervene in matters that take place in a foreign embassy. Also,\u00a0on October 12, another press conference took place at the Afghan embassy — this time, in presence of female journalists, who took front seats. Afghan foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi clarified that the exclusion of women reporters from the conference on October 10 was not deliberate, but more of a ‘technical issue<\/a>‘.<\/p>\n To conclude, a photograph of Afghan foreign minister Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi’s interaction with scholars at VIF India is being falsely shared to counter the claim that women reporters had not been allowed a press conference by Muttaqi at the Afghan embassy on October 10. The two are different events. That women were debarred from attending the press conference is well established and indubitable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the wake of the controversy over female journalists not being allowed to attend a press conference by foreign minister of Afghanistan Amir Khan Muttaqi at the Afghan embassy in Delhi on October 10, several social media users shared a photo showing Muttaqi addressing a gathering which included women. While doing so, they claimed that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":306272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[693],"an_content_type":[],"coauthors":[728],"class_list":["post-306209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-featured","fact_checks_claim_type-politics"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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