India, Oct. 11 -- Samajwadi Party MP from Sambhal, Zia Ur Rehman Barq, on Saturday took a swipe at the Yogi Adityanath-led government over Afghanistan's Taliban regime's foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi visiting Uttar Pradesh.

In a post on Facebook, Rehman said that Adityanath's government had earlier filed an FIR against his party leader Shafiqur Rahman Barq for remarks "supporting the Taliban", but will now provide their minister full security.

"When the Government of India itself invites and welcomes Taliban minister Muttaqi to India, no one raises any questions. But when Sambhal MP Dr Shafiqur Rahman Barq made a statement about the Taliban, Yogi Adityanath said he (Barq) should be ashamed, and the UP police filed an FIR," he wrote...