When Arpan Rai from The Independent heard that the Taliban’s foreign minister would be visiting her city of New Delhi, India, she couldn’t resist the opportunity to interview him. But while her male colleagues entered the embassy without issue, she and her female co-workers were forced to wait outside the gates W hen a “former” UN-sanctioned terrorist comes to your city for a hush-hush visit – complete with red carpet treatment and a tour of the Taj Mahal – it makes for one hell of a story.