New Delhi [India], October 11 (ANI): RLD leader Malook Nagar on Saturday criticised former Union Home Minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram and accused him of raising questions that allegedly favour Pakistan and oppose Afghanistan and Balochistan, suggesting that such actions could lead to terrorist attacks.

This comes after Chidambaram remarks on the absence of women journalists in Afghanistan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi's press conference.

Speaking with ANI, Nagar said, 'He should think what question he is raising...Their foreign minister has visited and requested something, and a decision has been made in accordance with his request. INDIA alliance, P Chidambaram and big leaders of Congress ask questions that are in favour of Pakistan and oppose Afghanistan and Balochistan or our country. Do they want to throw our country into the fire of terrorist attacks, which Pakistan keeps carrying out?'

Calling the issue a matter of diplomacy, he added that on the world stage, 'Pakistan will remain surrounded on both sides by Afghanistan and Balochistan, and our country will continue to progress and move forward.'

Chidambaram had expressed shock and disappointment over the exclusion of women journalists from Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi's press conference in New Delhi.

He felt that male journalists should have boycotted the event in solidarity with their female colleagues.

'I am shocked that women journalists were excluded from the press conference addressed by Mr Amir Khan Muttaqi of Afghanistan. In my personal view, the men journalists should have walked out when they found that their women colleagues were excluded (or not invited),' he said in a post on X.

Earlier today, Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to 'clarify his position' on the exclusion of women journalists from Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi's press conference in New Delhi.

Priyanka Gandhi criticised the government for 'allowing insult' of women journalists and questioned PM Modi whether his recognition of women's rights is 'convenient posturing' from one election to another.

In a post on X, Wayanad MP said, 'Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji, please clarify your position on the removal of female journalists from the press conference of the representative of the Taliban on his visit to India. 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.'

A controversy erupted in New Delhi over a press conference by the Taliban's acting Foreign Minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, where Indian women journalists were allegedly barred from attending at the Afghanistan Embassy.

The Taliban minister is on a week-long visit to India, beginning from October 9 till October 16. This is the first high-level delegation from Kabul to India since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in August 2021. (ANI)