The Darul Uloom Deoband on Saturday (October 12, 2025) asserted that there were no directives to keep women journalists away from covering the visit of Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi to the seminary.
"There were no restrictions from the Afghan Foreign Minister's office about who would attend," Deoband PRO Ashraf Usmani, also the media in-charge of Mr. Muttaqi’s Saturday programme, told PTI, and dismissed as "baseless" claims that women journalists were kept away.
This followed a raging controversy over th
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